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[quote=Anonymous]Nice post 18:30 - I agree with your strategy and ours was similar.

My DD had a 504 and not super high confidence and we agreed she was only going to apply to schools where she had reasonable chances of acceptance. In the end she applied to 7 schools. Three were total safeties (meaning we would’ve been shocked if she didn’t get in; this was based on her stats, their acceptance rates, and Naviance data). The other four were all what I would consider matches or low reaches. All were possible but none was a given. One was a match on paper but since it’s an OOS flagship we weren’t sure if she’d get in. Rest were in-state but one is very competitive overall, one a target on paper but very popular at her school as both a match and a safety, and one is not competitive overall but very competitive for her desired major. We were hoping she’d get into at least one in-state school and she ended up getting in everywhere.

For my kid it was really important for us (and her) to stack the deck with as many viable options as possible. Even if the only schools she got into were the safeties, she had good programs to choose from, one with merit money, and a range of choices which I think is very empowering. [/quote]

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