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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1[b]. don't apply to more than 10 schools. good apps take a lot of time. copy and pasting big portions of essays from school to school isn't great when the questions are really different. [/b]

2. apply to colleges that know and like your HS. look at where kids have gone in recent years. that's your universe.

3. but zig where others zag. if everyone is applying to x school, apply to y school. schools get very hot, very quickly.

so find the 5 year emissions list from your HS and apply to 10 schools from that list, making sure that you pick a few that are not getting all the best applicants from your HS

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1. this would have been horrible advice for my kid. got into 5 reach schools, a few of which prob would have been dropped by your rules. I'd say start essays REALLY early. Like June/July. The finished product for the supplementals look very different from early drafts (e.g., much better/stronger).

2. agree with 2. If your HS hasn't send someone to that college in last 3-4 years, might be really uphill battle.

3. Yes, find schools where 25% of the class isn't applying.

My kid applied to 20 schools. Got into 15. Probably applied to too many safeties and targets, but agree with your last point in theory. However, 3 of kids reaches were the colleges where a LOT of people in class applied. Kid just had a very tailored application and likely stronger understanding of the school showed in the school-specific essays.[/quote]

applying to 20 is dumb. you just don't need that many safeties or targets or reaches.  you need one safety.  your favorite one. a safety is a SAFETY ie you know you're getting in.  why would you need more than 1? a few targets and a few reaches. the end. [/quote]

You do you. Is it "dumb"? Really???

My kid had 10 reaches, plus schools like U-Miami and Wake, which I guess puts it at 12. 
1. Too many safeties, I agree....but in this environment, you never know: (vermont, elon, pitt, instate flagship (not in DMV), cu-boulder). Got $$ from all except the in-state flagship. 
2. The targets were schools like Case, Wisconsin, Lehigh, Wake, U-Miami, Davidson (more like a reach)?
3. And then the rest were reaches (SLACs, OOS flagships, T20 private).....
A very strategically picked list of schools. Ended up with a LOT of options from the reach category.

Also, the RD reach applications were 100% stronger from doing so many early EA apps. Just a little tip.[/quote]

I think applying to SLACs and OOS flagships is the reason for applying to 20 schools.  If you want to go to a SLAC then apply to only SLACs.  If you want to got to an OOS flagship then apply to OOS flagships.  A kid really only wants one or the other.

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