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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I dont think limiting apps is needed at publics. it's important at feeders, because if you have a kid who is double Princeton legacy who is also child of the guy who runs Princeton's endowment who is also the grandchild of a sec of state, he needs to apply to Princeton and go there. Not apply to 20 schools and then attend Princeton.

Colleges can only take so many from each feeder, you need to limit how many apps go to each reach. They dont care how many are applying to Santa Clara.[/quote]

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