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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is good. 
Students need to stop applying to 20+ schools. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and energy. Find a couple true safeties you actually would be happy at, visit them, and apply to them. Stop tossing out random apps to see who bites.

(Note, if the acceptance rate is less than 75%, it’s not a safety, no matter what your stats are)[/quote]

How many colleges have a greater than 75% acceptance rate?[/quote]

None you would want to attend with a 1400+ SAT.[/quote]

THIS.  It’s true that the answer to yield protection is not about applying to 20 schools. Equally though is not about applying to schools which are not a peer group fit for the child just because s/he has a near 100 percent chance of getting in.[/quote]

Oh, please.  Your kid isn’t that special. There are plenty of your child’s “peer group” at every large state university, many of which have very high admissions rates. Kids with high stats go to these colleges for many reasons — Mom and Dad are alums, it’s close to home — and most importantly — it’s cheap. Many go there because these schools have very generous merit aid for high stats kids. They almost all have “honors colleges” if you just can’t bear the thought of your precious snowflake associating with the riff riff.

And if a kid isn’t smart enough to figure out that applying to 10 schools with 5% acceptance rates does not give him/her a 50% chance of getting accepted, then they aren’t really that bright. [/quote]

You miss my point. Every kid IS special. State u is the answer for some kids, for others it’s another of the 3000 colleges in the US. My point is they need to find the right one(s) for them. [/quote]

No your point was that your kid was too smart to fit into State U. And PP correctly said get over yourself. My kid (who is not academically gifted) is at a lower ranked state school thriving in all ways. But she has plenty of friends there from all over the country that are brilliant. Some already doing scientific research. Another with perfect SATs and 36 AP credits from (gasp) Louisiana. [b]There is no university where your kid cannot find his/her academic peer group. [/b]Some just have more non focused students than others. [/quote]

Your kidding right. EVERY university has large groups of that caliber of kid? Really? Your kidding yourself. My kid is in and done at her top choice, and I didn’t post specifically about her. But it IS about high stats focused kids and what they are looking for in a college. I’m sorry your kid ain’t one of them. But a high achieving focused child aiming for HYP ain’t ever gonna find a satisfactory group of peers at Monmouth University. Your N of a few proves absolutely nothing and your assertion is delusional. [/quote]

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