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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here, I guess my frustration is that kids are applying to a ridiculous amount of schools and then saying they aren’t remotely interested in some of the highly selective schools they are accepted to.[/quote]

Yes, but according to Common App, kids that are submitting 15+ applications to schools with an acceptance rate &lt;40% are getting into 3-5 schools on average. [/quote]

So when they apply to 30, they are getting slots at 6 to 10 schools.  No kid needs that many acceptances.[/quote]

They do if they're comparing financial aid offers.

Eyes on your own paper.[/quote]

The kids who do this on college confidential claim to be full pay.  Anyway, financial aid can be determined before applying using the school calculator.

Absolutely no kids need 10 offers, it’s just a vanity project.[/quote]

The financial aid calculators don’t work for us due to owning a business.

Eyes on your own paper, as a pp said.

I do agree with you that some students apply to so many as a vanity project. On CC, a girl applied to 32 schools. This seemed to be done to be able to say they had $1 million in merit aid, which is a meaningless number.

At our school, some kids are bragging about their combined merit aid. Mine felt bad they had “only” so much in merit until I reminded them they didn’t want to apply to those less selective schools—and also they already have enough merit aid for one person! We pointed out the number means nothing yet articles are written about receiving $1 million in merit aid every year. Dumb. [/quote]

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