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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I am a college consultant and am not working with your son. Here is my honest take- most parents are wildly overconfident about their children’s chances. I can’t emphasize enough how crazy this process has gotten. In the last year alone, there have been major changes that have impacted the selectivity of schools like Villanova, for instance. Did you know that the EA acceptance rate at Villanova LAST YEAR was 58 pc and now it is 28 pc? We are talking a thirty point drop in ONE YEAR!"

Our neighbors son had similar stats, but at seemingly a weaker HS, to the OP's son and got hit by that 30% drop at his first choice Villanova.  Scrambled for other choices and only got into two safety schools.

We took that too seriously, and although not applying to Catholic schools, applied to mostly safeties, 2 stretches and a reach.  DC got in every where and now is deciding between 8 schools.

Our bottom line was to find ALL the schools that could possibly be desirable.  [b]Now we have a difficult but not truly painful decision to make.[/b]

Good luck OP [/quote]

May all life's troubles be this hard.  Congratulations to your son.

So restrict your choices to the three top ones, and then there's just three, right?

My son also did better than expected, and better than our consultant expected (got $$ at his reach and not at his safety of all things). Perhaps our children put together really nice applications? (organized, tight essays? nice recommendations?)
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