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[quote=Anonymous][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] This! I think most families actually make a decent effort to find schools that truly would be a safety/likely for their child (based on common data set and other research). It's when you hear about results like PP (which is probably more common this year) that make this whole process confusing.[/quote]
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