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[quote=Anonymous]Mine applied to 15.  One was a super reach, 4 were reaches (2 because it's really that tough and 2 which were really lottery), some targets and some safeties.

Safeties were the hardest for my DC to select b/c they really didn't want to go to any of them.  I think the problem we ran into is that DC chose safeties based upon which schools they were backing up.  For example, Indiana was a backup to Wisconsin, but Wisconsin was a backup to Michigan.  DC didn't really care about Indiana and various factors changed between application time and selection time.  We were given lots of warnings, so DC added more schools, but Indiana, in this example, wasn't necessary. I don't think all safeties had extra essays.

DC was high stats and was aiming for T25 schools, so they had to apply to more schools.  If DC was looking at schools with higher acceptance rates, I think a lower number would have been fine. It's hard to look at it objectively, though, on this side since I have seen how it all played out.[/quote]

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