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[quote=Anonymous]I would skip most of the top 20 or so schools entirely. Skip the ivies and all the swanky New England SLACs, skip Stanford and Chicago. Reaches should be top schools in the south or midwest that don't get the same volume of applicants that the big hitters do, e.g., Carleton and Davidson, Vanderbilt, Rice, Emory. Maybe Pomona and Claremont McKenna.

For matches, focus on the schools ranked between 20-50 on UNSWR rankings, and again especially on schools in the south and the midwest. Grinnell, Macalester, Oberlin, Kenyon. Skidmore? Dickinson? Case Western, Wake Forest, Michigan, Wisconsin, UMiami, Tulane. Also, Pitzer, Occidental.

It's going to be hard for her to have safeties she likes with such uneven stats, so apply to a broad range of match-y schools.

Discourage all thought (both your own and your DC's) of "elite" and "prestige" and encourage focus all attention on FIT. This is not about getting her into an elite school. This is about finding an environment where she can truly thrive. She is clearly very bright. Find the right pond for her.[/quote]

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