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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh! Some of you are sooo mean! She did not hurt you or your child in anyway. She seems to have been poorly advised, but I doubt she had ill intent.[/quote]

O.k., but what is the point of applying to 115 schools - especially if nearly all of them are all safeties and matches?[/quote]

[b]Because she likely goes to a crappy school with no advising.[/b] Please read the blog post that is part of this thread. People need to get out of their bubble for a minute to understand why students feel they have to do this, especially minority students.[/quote]

Hmm.. she was sophisticated enough to apply to Brandeis, so who advised her to do that?  I have extreme difficulty believing she wouldn't have known that even applying to 40-50 schools would be over-doing it.[/quote]

One has to be sophisticated to apply to Brandeis?  Ok.[/quote]

Someone said her school had no counseling. When you look at the schools she got into the outlier was definitely Brandeis.  So although her school has no counseling she was somehow savvy enough to pick a school in the Northeast with a 34% acceptance rate?  Either she got counseling or she figured it out on her own, and if she can do that on her own she had to know 115 applications was excessive and unnecessary. [/quote]

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