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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is going to depend on your kid.  Mine fell in love with one that was a target with rolling admissions that we could afford to full pay.  His plan was to apply early and if he got in, be done.  That’s what he did.  I spent the fall asking if he wanted to apply to others, just to see, and he kept saying this is where he wanted to go.

So he had a stress free admissions process but this is unusual.  And of course, I’m left thinking that I wonder if he would have gotten into this or that school or what the financial aid packages would have been.

But he’s happy and it’s a great fit.

I would try to pick at least one rolling admissions early, that she could see herself at.

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This sounds a lot like our DC1 except she fell in love with a safety. We made her apply to a few more but, in retrospect, we shouldn’t have. She knew herself way better and, like PP’s son, had a stress-free senior year and is loving it at the school both she loved…and who loved her back.

DC2 is different and has a more measured plan of 2-3-2 (semi-reach/target/safety). Would be genuinely happy at all.

TBH, y’all sound crazy with 15+. [i]You’ve [/i]created this self-fulfilling prophecy and unpredictability. When schools get 10s of thousands of apps for just a few thousand (or even hundreds) of slots…what do you expect?

[size=9](full disclosure: not in DMV but at a somewhat competitive/magnet, suburban VA school)[/size][/quote]

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