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[quote=Anonymous]at our feeder, LORs are targeted to schools.

here's how it works.

Johnny asks Ms Smith to write his LOR. They talk. Ms Smith says, what school is your top choice or ED? Johnny says Wharton. Ms Smith write a letter to Wharton - about why Johnny would be so great there with specific examples of why. If ED doesn't work out, there will be a stripped down version. Some teachers will strip it down and make two or three version: business schools and jesuit and general. Or even business and engineering and general. Those go out to the appropriate 8 or 10 schools during RD.

The high school also limits how many letters a teacher can write.

Every counselor, every letter writer has a smaller number of kids they're doing work for.  Every kid is writing fewer app.  Every app, in the end, is just a lot more powerful. This is how schools like Brearley get so many kids into T10 schools.

And because you and 12 of your classmates are applying to Wharton, you have a much better chance of getting one of the 2-3 spots that the high school usually gets than  if you and 30 of your classmates applied to Wharton, especially if in that group of 30 were the 5 superstars who are going to Harvard anyway.

For the same reason, if you apply and get into your SCEA, you are highly highly discouraged from applying anywhere else. Youre done! [/quote]

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