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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- common data set
- your own high school profile
- naviance (etc) data from your high school

for 95% of kids:

- take the 5 year matriculation data from your high school. often on your school profile. This is maybe 120 colleges.

- cross out all schools that are easy omits. you probably already know if your kid has any interest in places like Julliard or West Point or Purdue or Bennington. This should bring it down to 60-80 schools.

- Take out another 20 that are either under matches or overmatches ie Eastern Kentucky and Princeton.

- if you have any other limitations like geography or religion, limit the list further.

You should be able to start junior year with 50 colleges. Next step is do a couple tours locally even if your kid has no interest in staying local. See a big school, a small school, a Jesuit school .. whatever. Try to see a couple of schools in each band of big/small/urban/suburban. This is the biggest cut of all so take your time on this one during junior year. Will you care about sports culture, frats, etc. And also think about major here.

- By spring break junior year, you'll have a list of 20-25 schools. Run the NPCs. Go look at 5 or so that are near each other. and maybe a long weekend to look at a couple more. List is down to 15-20

By end of junior year, with grades and test scores in hand, you'll get realistic about money and odds. The list will be 10-15 and you're good to apply.

I dont like message forums, but I did like podcasts. [/quote]

I would add that for the most part kids are only going to small regional colleges because of a sport.

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