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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My current senior DC has 7 deferrals. I keep telling him they will likely all be WL or rejections. Every single deferral my older 2 kids had were WL or rejection in RD. Not ONE turned into an acceptance. YMMV[/quote]
what do you do when this happens?

What are the alternative paths?

I'm getting nervous.
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My kid is a very high stats (good e.c. not spectacular), so maybe my nervousness is unfounded, but I just feel like it's all a lottery these days.

DC did EA to flagships like Michigan, Chicago, etc.  and RD to few elite ones like Stanford. I'm not holding my breath for the elite ones, but I am not even sure about the top publics now.

Am I being ridiculous? First kid to go to college.  I went to a no-name state u.[/quote]

Have him apply to your alma mater and some state directional schools. [/quote]
my alma mater is a large public out west, and they don't care about legacy, nor would I ever pay OOS for that college.

What is a "state directional schools"?

[b]To a PP, DC did apply to a "safety" according to collegevine or whatever it's called, but I feel like safeties aren't even safeties anymore[/b].  Plus, I'm hearing that colleges want to yield protect so some of the "safeties" will deny really high stats students.

sigh.. honestly... it really is like playing the lottery, except there's way more at stake.[/quote]

OP, safeties have high acceptance rates, like 50+%. My kid applied to 4 safeties because admissions is so unpredictable and so far they are the only acceptances he has in hand. [/quote]

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