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[quote=Anonymous][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, 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]
Your belief is that these schools are effectively lying to kids? I don’t believe it.

We know from the SFS litigation that they provide each school that a student applies to with what is called a “ Secondary School Report”. That report effectively ranks each of the applicants from SFS to that school.

If they I are outwardly supporting each student to apply to every school they want while not telling them, at least generally, that their ranking about students within that school for admission are even low then they would be putting themselves in continued risk for more lawsuits because it would be unethical.  [/quote]

If you listen to your counselor, they will tell you that the application is going to be a long reach or to consider other options. Yet some kids, or more likely, their parents, believe that their kid will be the one to buck the odds and get into DreamU early.

It just isn't the case anymore than a 3.7+ 1530+ kid from a school like Sidwell is a shoe-in for a tippy top reach school. Times have changed and parents and students have to be more realistic.[/quote]

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