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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, it does. The process has gotten so ridiculous. "Over-qualified" kids get rejected from schools solely so they can manage their yields. This is not OK. [b]If a kid applies, assume they want to go there.[/b] At least waitlist them so they can plead their case if they really are interested.

The process has gotten so over-complicated. Schools should be devoting their financial resources towards education, not paying yield management experts.[/quote]

Except OP explicitly said that the kid did not want to go there![/quote]

So why did he apply? I think there should be a happy medium between "demonstrated interest" and "must visit, click on a lot of e-mails, and constantly suck up to show you love them."

It has become too easy to just apply to dozens of places. But there should also be more predictability to it - if the process was more predictable, students would feel less of a need to apply to many places. It is a bit of chicken and the egg.

I hate the stories about the underprivileged kid who got into 43 schools and got huge scholarships from all of them. Why were they applying to 43 schools? If you are so underprivileged, spend some of the time you spent applying and get a job (I know the additional work to apply to an additional school is often minimal, but you get my point). These kids aren't heroes.[/quote]

Agreed!  I think it's time we limit applications to 10-12.  Both of my kids kept their to that and did fine.

I agree with everything you said except the system doesn't reward that. If everyone (or the Common App) limited the total applications to 12, then it would impact the process. If schools were divided into tiers (obviously, they would never agree to this) and you could only apply to, say, 4 Top XX schools and 6 in YY-ZZ, that would work too.

But for as long as colleges are rewarded to artificially suppressing acceptance rates by waiving fees, not requiring test scores, not asking for supplemental essays and sending kids to "alt campuses" for the first year without having to report on their stats as being admitted, the race to the bottom will continue.

Kid 1 got in everywhere except one (and that one was a T10 school they had no shot at---kid had a 26 ACT/3.5UW/No APs---yeah they were never getting in, but wanted to apply and we were happy to let them have that one).  So rejected at Far reach and accepted at all targets and safeties (kid was at/above 50% at every school except the reach)

Kid 2: 
4 Reaches: ED1 deferral then rejected in RD
Rejected at 1, WL at 1, Accepted with 1st year abroad at NEU

3 Targets: 
Accepted at all 3, top merit automatic merit award at CWRU (the award you just get for applying)

3 Safeties: 
Accepted at all 3, Top safety gave $28K merit per year (others were schools that don't give merit/state U)

So it went exactly as you would expect.  Both kids got into all their targets and safeties and only applied to ~10 schools

The only reason you think you need more schools is because you want to apply to 10-15 Reaches and then toss in a few Targets/Safeties.  
But in reality, there is no way most kids would actually be "good fit" for 15 reaches.  It's time to do the work and research what schools you want before applying.

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