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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing that's going to make it hard to convince "top" kids not to apply to 20 schools is the randomness. My child has three or four friends who applied to all 8 Ivy's and got into one, and not the one they would have applied to if they'd winnowed down their list. The randomness works against applying to a limited list. They're glad now that they cast a wider net, especially since they got rejected at places like Colgate while getting into Brown or Penn. I wish USNews would change its metrics to eliminate colleges' perceived need to game kids' intentions & yield protect though. Some of my child's friends were waitlisted or rejected from so-called safeties and ended up having a slew of waitlists, even though they were 1500 plus SAT, top 5% of class students. I have to believe the waitlists will move, especially if those kids show strong interest now, but there has to be a better way than dragging the whole process out so long. When my child applies, they will apply ED1 and then ED2 if ED1 doesn't work out, while also applying to a bunch of state schools with rolling admissions and more predictable results - ie nonflagship state schools and others who through research seem to do less in the way of yield protecting. If that doesn't work out, they'll apply to 20 just like the kids this year. Not how it should have to be, but it's just so unpredictable. I'm sure that people will figure out who yield protects and avoid those schools, so it could backfire on them anyway. Yeah, maybe some kids didn't have them as their first choice, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't go. I have another child who went to their 7th choice school. They were still excited to go once they got over the initial deflated feelings and disappointment, and would be the first to tell you that it worked out for the best anyway. I think it will be better this fall though, because there will be fewer deferrals to contend with, and because the class of 22 has the benefit of seeing what happened with this year's seniors. For class of 21, it felt like the rules of the game were changed in the 11th hour, and while the end results may ultimately be similar, it's been a tough and confusing process for them.[/quote]

This.  Someone can catch Columbia, be rejected from the rest of the Ivys, and WL and the next tier.  This seems to be a result that a number of people experienced.  If that is true -- the net needs to be wide.  [/quote]

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