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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. Last year’s admissions process was a sh!tshow.  My son was WL at one of his target schools and rejected from from another target school.  He got in at two safeties and received merit from both; he is very happy where he landed and it really is a good fit.[/quote]

I think the lesson is not that last year was a "sh!show" but maybe rather that people aren't accurately assessing targets vs. safeties.  [/quote]

You would be wrong.[/quote]

It seems if you only got into your safeties and none of your targets, your assessments were wrong somehow. I know so many people who were shocked about their kids results, but I wasn’t, because GPA and SATs are not the whole picture. [/quote]

That's not the point. It was all over the place, including not getting into safeties, but getting into targets and reaches. You can create your little formula for applying, and you should, but the results do not always reflect that formula. Your assessment will not always match what admissions actually does, even if you were spot in with evaluating the range.[/quote]

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