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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It makes sense for a kid to apply to MIT, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, and Georgia Tech. Or Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and Swarthmore. Or maybe Brown, Oberlin, and Reed. These groups of schools all have qualities that would attract similar students.

But the eight Ivies plus MIT and Stanford are not interchangeable. A kid for whom UPenn would be a good match would probably be very unhappy at Dartmouth and vice versa. I would tell my own child to figure out what he wanted in a school before sending out applications to any and all. What would happen if the child only got into the one Ivy that would not at all suit that child? Would the student just go to any Ivy just because it's an Ivy? 
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Really, who cares?  In the end, the kid will only enroll at one school.  Most kids will flourish at a wide range of schools.[/quote]

The point is that applying to all shows a lack of research into what kind of school would be best for a particular child. What majors is a child interested in? Does the child like a big school or a small one? City, suburb, or rural area? I'd make sure my child thought about the answers to these and a lot of other questions before applying and not wait until the crunch is on in April to make a hurried decision before 1 May. 
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Some kids can make any school/geographic area work for them, depending on their maturity and personality, so "fit" isn't that big of a deal.  Besides, we're talking about choosing between elite schools here -- not a bunch of random colleges that might indeed have serious resource problems in specific study areas.  [/quote]

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