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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t get shut out of targets and safeties. My kid had those scores and didn’t apply to any competitive schools. She aimed for merit , got lots, and took a free ride to a big state U. Kids who are great students and don’t have a hook are going to state Us. Prestigious universities have decided our kids lives are good enough and they don’t need the benefit of a door-knocker college and there’s no feel-good reward for them. [/quote] Again, my DS was just accepted to a school with a 15% acceptance rate and deferred from one with a 71% acceptance rate (a state u). We'd considered the latter a target, and yet...[/quote]
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