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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If transcript is basically as good as it can be, the only thing a little soft there is the ACT. 34 would be better if possible.

But even with 34-36, it doesn’t make it that much more likely she can get into “top 5.” But does she want to go to top 5 just because they are top 5 or because she likes those particular schools? I would visit all the top 30 schools and figure out what really appeals and then develop an ED strategy off that. You have two bullets to increase your chances of acceptance - ED1 and ED2. If you go Williams/Amherst ED1 - you will have a lower chance vs the other schools named regardless of your stats. It’s kind of just a lottery. With my DC whose grades were not as strong, we started mid pack ED1 (Colby peer for perspective) and then did ED2 towards bottom of top 30 (Bates peer). Got into Bates peer and VERY pleased because it’s going to be a great fit. While the difficulty of getting into the Bates peer is lower, in my mind the academic quality is really on par with any of them. And the student body is like marginally “worse” by 20 SAT points which is meaningless. All these schools are getting incredibly smart kids - there is not room for all of them at Williams - some portion of the super duper perfect ones get in, then it waterfalls down (not just with rejections but via self selection ED). By the time you get to the bottom of the top 30 list you get a few kids who had Bs on their transcript (oh the humanity!). So I would just think carefully about where she really would be happy and target those two ED- worst case scenario you fall into RD land and could end up at Dickinson or Gettysburg or F&M or Denison- not the end of the world but think through how much you want to risk it going for gold in early decision

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NP whose kids targeted nescac schools. This is excellent advice if you are looking at LACs and is essentially what a paid consultant would suggest. [/quote]

If any paid college consultant gave this advice for a fee, demand a refund.[/quote]

What is wrong with the advice?[/quote]

Visit all 30 top ranked schools ?

Admission is just like a lottery ?

No reasonable paid college consultant should make foolish statements like these two examples.

Then equating the educational experience to a large group of LACs because students are within a certain number of SAT points on average isbeyond silly.[/quote]

And what the heck is a “Bates peer?” I mean, why not just apply to Bates? Or else say the school. So weird.[/quote]

You know, not necessarily. What may seem fairly ambiguous to you just may not be in certain school/social groups.[/quote]

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