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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We all acknowledge that the college application and admissions process is just insane. If you had a clean slate and could redesign the college admissions process, what would you do? For example in the UK students are permitted to apply only to 5 schools, This restriction as you can imagine creates a very different mindset among all the stakeholders - students, counselors, parents.....not saying it’s better.... but it is certainly a different way than we do things in the states. [/quote]

I think that application limit would change things - but how do you know which schools to apply to?  This year, outcomes were all over the map, with rejections at "easy" schools, and acceptances at difficult schools.  Does this mean that colleges would have to be more transparent about what they are looking for?  I think, ultimately, this is what parents want - for everything to be spelled out for them re: college admissions.  But you and I both know that applications would still be "top heavy" - and that, ultimately, is the issue.  There are only so many seats at ivies, and sometimes parents have their child apply at ivies for the wrong reasons.  Maybe we need to look at that. [/quote]

What parents want is for Larla to be able to go to whatever school Larla wants, and if Larla can't go there, they want to know the explicit reasons why.

They say they want this information so that they can relax and not worry so much about the "arms race" and take back their kids' teenage years. But really they want this information so that they can make sure Larla ticks off every single required box. Knowing this information would not lead to anyone relaxing. At all.

Parents also don't want to hear that for every applicant admitted to Harvard, they could choose many other EQUALLY QUALIFIED applicants to take their place. Many kids can tick the boxes. So parents also want Harvard to admit thousands more than the number of students they currently admit.[/quote]

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