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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those are choices that are so close together that it's ridiculous not to take the full ride.

It's not even "full ride at target vs full pay at reach", it's "full ride at reach vs full pay at different reach".[/quote]

No. For some of these tippy-top kids (99.9%ile types their whole lives, +creative, ++everything else) many schools like ND, Vanderbilt, WashU even JHU are matches, not reaches. For true outlier kids, they often need to pick the school that provides the peer group with the largest % closest to them so they are no longer outliers in college. These kids are the ones that get into multiple T10s unhooked, and not uncommonly have a "known" merit based full-ride at a T30 and up, if they applied to those schools that offer the competitive ones.  These kids are still often the top 10% once they attend the T10, but they would often be outliers at most T15-30s. The average kid at an ivy would not be an outlier at the latter schools. The group for which the peer group matters between most T15-30s vs T10s are not average ivy kids. The need a highly matched peer group to reach their full potential, because they have never had one. [/quote]

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