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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He will apply to 10 since his 10 is the limit for his high school. He is within the middle 50th percentile for all of them except one roll be a reach. He is doing a college application camp at his school next week to get the common app done and to have a second person go over his essay. [/quote]
Is this OP, and all the schools are T25? If so, he needs a [i]major[/i] readjustment in his list. A list comprised of only T25 is a perfect recipe for being shut out.

He needs safeties, true safeties where the acceptance rates are &gt;60%. Schools with rates around 40-50+% have a tendency to yield protect, or yield manage, where they defer/deny/waitlist high-stats students they think are unlikely to attend. A safety could also be a rolling admission school (at any acceptance rate) where an early acceptance becomes the safety, provided it is affordable. A safety on the list could also be a school like Arizona with a late application deadline, where one could wait to see their other results first (caveat, scholarship deadlines may be earlier).

He needs targets as well. Look for schools in the 30-60% acceptance rate range. These days, that usually means looking at at least some schools that are (gasp!) beyond the top 50.

I agree with one of the PPs that if you can get him to visit the campus of some safeties or low targets, that might clue him in that such places can do just fine. He needs that added perspective that prestige is not the be-all, end all.[/quote]

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