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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]our high school limits to 12 - up from 10 pre-pandemic.

and the average, even when you take out the ED kids, is only about 7.

fewer apps = better apps[/quote]

Look, the privates are also feeders. You acquire an advocate with your tuition. I know all this very well because I attended one of these schools, greatly benefitted from it, and used to work at one. But a lot of our kids are at public schools where a huge number of kids have taken 10+ APs and have extraordinary GPAs - and the counselors hardly know them.

I agree with other PPs that you don't need 5 safeties. My very high stats kid applied to 1 safety. He applied to 4 targets and got into all. And he applied to 15 reaches, was accepted at 5 (including ivies), waitlisted at 5, rejected at 5. I would never have been able to predict which ones.

I doubt the issue for any were his applications. I assume it was more about institutional priorities and where something resonated with an admissions officer - again extremely hard to predict. No one wants to apply to 20 schools but when you are unhooked and ambitious, you make the most of your chances.[/quote]

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