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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Departments play no role in college admissions.  Your kid got in because it’s a “weaker” school.  What makes your strategy a sound one is not an admissions advantage.  It’s that you’ve identified relatively easy to get into schools where the subject(s) DC is interested in are well taught.  I’m guessing/hoping you’re looking at schools where there are grad programs in DC’s field — otherwise how would you know the strength of specific departments?  (USNWR rankings of undergrad programs are useless).  And this strategy relies on your kid ending up in the major s/he was interested in as a junior in HS.  You may well understand all this, but someone reading your post might not.

Congrats to your DC![/quote]

I'm still not really understanding the strategy. I agree with above post that this is a great strategy for identifying and researching schools. But there is no need to apply to them. If there are multiple schools that meet these criteria, and where you are assured of admission (safety), there is no reason to apply. Choose which you like best and apply there. The only reason to apply to more than one or two would be if something about it is not "safe", like fishing for merit aid--which is a perfectly valid strategy- apply to many schools where you are certain of admission, but not certain of merit aid in hopes of finding a significant scholarship. What I don't understand are the kids that apply to many schools where they were certain of admission, and knew up front what the merit outcome was likely to be (either because the school doesn't offer any, or it is an amount based on a fixed table, etc.). In these cases applying is either about putting off making a decision that you will need to make anyway, or for ego to rack up acceptances to schools that they know they do not want to attend. [/quote]

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