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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is a rising senior and planning which colleges to apply to. I've seen horror stories about students applying to 30+ colleges and she definitely doesn't to be one of those. Plan is to apply to 6 schools that she's really researched and has every intention of attending each school. Her academics and ECs are quite strong so we're not too worried about those boxes, but we believe her demonstrated interest in each school will come through the essays and put her over the top. VA resident fyi.

2 reaches - Yale, UChicago

2 matches - Cornell, Duke

2 safeties - UVA, Michigan

Is this a good list? Any risks to this plan? Please keep feedback constructive.[/quote]

I’d consider adding respectable, not-very-selective flagship universities in the Midwest, like the University of Minnesota, University of Iowa and Indiana University, as near safeties. They’re usually in cute towns, are big enough to offer a wide variety of classes and students, use honors programs to meet the needs of high-stats kids, and probably look only half a step worse to grad schools than UVA.

The grad schools can probably can see as well as we can that undergraduate admissions in a mess and will take that into account when looking at applications.[/quote]

And grad school at all these schools is knowable.  Most schools public a general profile of where grads end up.  If your kid has a specific idea, you can literally ask admissions the number of kids attending law school within three years of graduation, and for a breakdown of which schools.   Or where the class of 2015 Bio majors are three years out, or whatever. They all collect and breakdown this data. You just need to ask for it.

And it’s a good idea, BTW. I went to a T25 college and graduated summa.  Could not get into a top PhD program, because the kids in my major always went pre-professional.  And the whole school was geared as pre-professional at the  My college just didn’t place or have the reputation for placing PhD candidates.  It would have been nice to know upfront.   [/quote]

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