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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you are going to Harvard, you are settling.  Settling is okay.  Even for the overachieving DC crowd.

DD was in a similar situation.  She ended up getting waitisted by her number 1 and ended up in a different city, but she is excited about it.

Visiting schools AFTER being accepted is a whole different experience.  That's when DD trade her decision.[/quote]

This is a silly statement.  My daughter got into Harvard and chose a different school.  Contrary to what you seem to believe, Harvard is not everyone's "dream school".  [/quote]

Your daughter is an unusual case.  Harvard's yield is over 80%. So it is the first choice of almost everybody who applies..  DD has a friend who settled for Princeton after not getting into Harvard.[/quote]

Are you the same poster who says that any school other than Harvard is "settling"?  What a narrow and frankly, false, viewpoint.  It may be the first choice of "almost everyone who applies," but that doesn't make it the first choice for the thousands of other students who don't apply.  And for the small percentage of Ivy-eligible students, Harvard may not be the top contender.  Every Ivy has a different feel or personality, and Harvard just might not be someone's cup of tea when compared to Princeton, Yale, Columbia, etc.  Funny that you don't seem to understand this very simple concept.[/quote]

Yes, because so many people get into Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton.   Sorry, that's a myth.  The schools at the level choose the students not the other way around.  A quick look at the yield numbers tells even the most casual of observers [b]that very few kids get accepted to multiple top 10 schools[/b].[/quote]

They got sued for that a generation or so ago.    A yield around 80 means 1 in 5 chose elsewhere.  [/quote]

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