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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what can kids only apply to 10 schools at gds?[/quote]

Yup - parents of senior. We only found this out in junior year launch meeting with parents. Was never disclosed prior.

UC schools count as one school no matter how many applied to; and UK UCAS schools count as one. UC's have gotten very hard since UCs are uniquely focused on AP courses and weighted GPA and GDS dropped AP courses so current class was basically shut out of UCLA/UCB with one or maybe two exceptions (and those used to be reliable admits 3 years ago)

So those ways around 10 cap dont help as much. Some folks dont want to go to UK schools - though UK/Canada/Ireland very popular this year

No other school in DC/NYC/LA/SF caps at 10. Some cap at 15. 10 is unheard of. Parents in lower grades should complain - many senior parents are complaining now but the complaints last year fell on deaf ears.

In the school's defense, they say that it helps the middle of the pack kid because the top 10-20% of the class doesnt blanket 15 of the to p15 schools. That might have been true 5 years ago but now that apps everywhere have doubled in 3-5 years, GDS 10 cap hasnt kept pace

If you believe this is mostly an odds/lottery ticket game where it's key to have 2-3 safeties (and school insists on 3 safeties for most) and 4 true targets, then you are left w/ 3 reaches. I can easily argue with so many current seniors getting wiped out at targets this year that the old math no longer works

Good luck getting anything but happy horsesh*t from GDS admin and CCO when raising objections to this. [/quote]

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