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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is going to be valedictorian or salutatorian at his competitive public high school in suburban Boston.   After hearing horror stories from others, I have been prepping him to use ED wisely, not aim mit etc, and expect to not even get into t20 or most t40 schools rd.   We just hired a college counselor who recommending keeping Harvard and Stanford on our teach list.  Now he likely won’t Ed to a school like tufts thinking those schools could be possible.  He is a full pay white boy and has no hook and lackluster ecs without leadership.  Are these schools possible?  Is this college counselor leading us to disappointment?  [/quote]

If you trust your outside counselor (and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t since presumably you hired them for their expertise), don’t let your DC ED to someplace that isn’t his first choice. My DC was very tempted to ED0 to UChicago after attending a fully funded summer program there. DC’s high school counselor encouraged them to take the (almost) bird in hand. DC’s outside counselor, whom we trusted much more than the high school counselor, recommended DC shoot their shot at their first choice HYPSM. DC was accepted early, but even if that hadn’t worked out, I’m sure they would’ve landed just fine in RD at another great school. 17 year olds, especially high achieving ones like your DC, shouldn’t operate out of fear.[/quote]

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