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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to the original question:  Yes!
And double yes for all highly selective colleges.
[b]Counselors steer kids away from each other without telling.[/b]
Kids are afraid to speak about where they are applying, even to their closest friends.
The schools pretend it is all hunky-dory and it is not.[/quote]

This hasn't been our experience with more than one who has gone through the process, so have a sense of how many kids applied to the same schools for ED.

Double digits each to Penn, Yale, Harvard, Northwestern, Brown, Chicago, with 5+ to places like Cornell, NYU and 2-4 at places like Haverford/Swarthmore/Amherst/Williams That is like 70-80% of the classes. That isn't steering away. Steering away is what the NE Boarding schools do, where the vet the kids and won't even send a transcript to an ED unless it is approved by the CCO. In other words, [b]what I have seen is the CCO at our "big3" basically supporting whatever choices the kids want to make, regardless of how little their chances might be.[/quote][/b]

So, you've read their Recs then ?[/quote]

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