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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. My DS has applied to 8 so far -- 1 ED, 6 EA, 1 RD w/an 11/15 deadline. He'll add 5 UC campuses by 11/30. Depending on the outcome of this early round, he's ready to max out his Common App with another 13 schools to make for a total of 26. (One of the ones already submitted had to be done via the Coalition App.) His list is entirely composed of what should be targets and safeties - no reaches.

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Strange strategy if you are not making it up. If you bother to apply to 26 why not include a few reaches?  [/quote]

DP: They are probably looking for merit aid offers.[/quote]

PP here - not looking for merit. Full pay family. Just very wary about the admissions process, especially given all the craziness in numbers since covid. We've heard too many horror stories from kids who got shut out of schools that seemed like easy matches. His ED school is a high target - his stats are well within the green checks on the scattergrams - but who really knows nowadays?

I hope in the end the list will be much shorter. At least 5 of the schools will fall off the RD list if he gets into one of the EA schools he liked. And he really only wanted to apply to one UC school, where his cousin went and where we have family, but since it's no additional work to send the application to multiple campuses, we figured why not? [/quote]

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