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[quote=Anonymous]OP, sorry you are dealing with this. I think this is very common. (My current senior is focused on reach schools and idolizes his top choice. When I discuss the issue of inherent low odds, he thinks I'm saying he can't do it, as if I lack confidence in him, which is not the case. I'm just trying to be pragmatic about adding more reasonably accessible schools.)

What I typically do with my kids is sit down with a long list - like the US News top 150+ universities - and top LACs, though they were not interested in small schools - and, considering their stats, go down that list school by school, and talk about each one for a minute. Many were easily eliminated by location. The ones where I get some sort of "maybe" response can stay on the large list. Then, over a series of additional discussions, we go over the long list again, sometimes with me throwing in additional suggestions that they may not have focused on before that have what the kid wants, like "did you know your cousin majored in X and really liked their time at school Y, and you are likely to be admitted there."

One step at a time. You'll get there. In our house, Sundays are a good time for having a little meeting with my kid on the college admissions process. I try to keep it short. Sometimes my kids would end up surprising me, like the last Sunday in Oct last year, when my other kid told me he wanted to ED to a T10, which he now attends.[/quote]

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