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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s no way they can cap something that has nothing to do with them. Other than sending transcripts the high school should really be hands off. Your kids can apply wherever they want. I do think more than 10 would be pointless, but still can’t be school regulated.[/quote]

They have to send recommendations, transcripts etc for each student, with 125 or whatever students, that is a lot to manage. Get one kid who wants to apply to 20 schools and it gets unmanagable.

Really, if you focus a list, there is no reason to need more than 10.

- a parent who has been through it twice in very recent years including 2022[/quote]

I'm not quite sure I buy this as a reason. I mean hire more people in the office. The fact that summer camp office at GDS has more staff than than college counseling office is notable and stupid. That said, each of the 4 or 5 people in their college office seem strong in my interactions. But having too much to send is not a reason to cap.

I suppose they are delivering good results with this cap. Here's unofficial count of 21 and 22 GDS matriculations by college (using public sources, any college above a count of 3 combined '21 and '22). There's a very long tail below this list of course.

University of Michigan	8
Tufts	7
Wash U	7
Brown	6
NYU	6
Duke	5
Cornell	4
Harvard	4
Macalaster	4
Tulane	4
University of Toronto	4
University of Wisconsin	4
Boston College	3
Georgetown	3
UPenn	3
University of Chicago	3
Wesleyan	3
Yale	3[/quote]

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