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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry OP, but your post does sound geared toward true reaches (not the "reach" to a school with a 60% acceptance rate). The best thing you can do for your kid to avoid the "bloodbath" is to help him/her find reaches, targets, and TRUE safeties they'd be happy going to. And if you have a high stats kid, they need to put the work in with the safety just as they would with the reach/match. [b]High stat kids are sometimes sidelined in the yeild protection process.[/b][/quote]

This is what worries me. [/quote]

Yep.  You have to show them love.  I had a high stats kid who did not want T20.  She showed the lower ranked schools the love and got into all of them.[/quote]

What to do though with like a JMU which I don’t think looks at demonstrates interest? It should be a safety for my kid but I worry about yield protection. He actually is interested in the school and while he has the stats for higher ranked schools he’d be happy to go there.[/quote]

Yes, JMU does demonstrated interest.  You should have a JMYou account - different from the my Madison login for applicants - which tracks demonstrated interest.  I think my DS has an 88% - won’t get much higher b/c he doesn’t want to make public comments on the account. The more you watch their videos, visit the school and click on links in their emails to you, the more the % goes up. Just FYI.  [/quote]

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