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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are thoughtful about your list and not shotgunning a bunch of reach school there's really no need to apply to more than 8-10 schools. [/quote]

^ This, in spades.[/quote]

Whether or not that is true, why should [i]you [/i]get to decide that, or any hs administration?

Shouldn't a student and their family be free to make that decision?

/FYI both my kids ED admits so this did not affect us, so no accusations please.  But right it right and this is wrong.[/quote]

People are free to not send their kids to GDS or any other private school that does this. Our school encourages finding the right fit and there’s no way all ivies are the right fit. They’re still able to fill the grade, so it’s clearly not a big enough problem for most families.[/quote]

You completely avoid answering the question. To repeat:

Whether or not that is true, why should [i]you [/i]get to decide that, or any hs administration?

Shouldn't a student and their family be free to make that decision?[/quote]

It seems like you can’t grasp that people have a different opinion. My kid’s school decides to do this to help kids focus on fit. And probably to [b]limit the number of apps from the school to help the whole student body,[/b] not just the top students. And parents are generally fine with it. I’m okay with my schools making this decision for my kid - if I felt differently, I’d send my kid to another school. If you care so much about an individualist culture, you’re free to homeschool your kid.[/quote]

I'm not the PP you are replying to - but went through this recently at a school without a cap. I do not think limiting other students to 10 would have helped anyone else. When it came down to it, you either had a hook or you didn't. And the kids with the hooks are the ones that got into T20 schools. Limiting the people shooting the moon to too many schools was never going to change this outcome. I do not think the hooked kids applied to too many T20 schools so that it took spots from the unhooked ones.  It's a nice idea to think that if you limit the number of applicants it'll open up spots for more of your students at these top schools, and maybe it used to work that way before COVID and before test optional and before application booms and before pushing back on the privileged but unhooked. But I don't think it works that way anymore. Just my 2 cents. For the GDS folks out there - I hope they see this and give you some more wiggle room to adapt to the new world.[/quote]

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