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[quote=Anonymous]My college counselor at a local competitive high school advised me to apply only to second tier schools (good schools, but not top tier) because that's where she said I would best fit in.  And she explicitly told me that she could contact those schools on my behalf, but that if I wanted to apply to some of the other schools on my list, I needed to know ahead of time that the school could only in earnest support a small number of applications to those schools and I would not be one of them.  So I applied early to Harvard, got in, and never heard so much as a congratulations from the counselor, though I did see her many time through the rest of my senior year.  Harvard turned out to be a great fit, and I did well enough to go to the grad school of my choice.  A happy ending for me, but a few friends from high school actually bought into her crap and applied only to schools that they were pretty assured of being accepted at (no reaches).  It's hard to believe my parents paid for that advice.[/quote]

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