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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is likely in that same grade. If the estimates are correct, there were double digit applications each to Northwesterm. Harvard, Yale, Penn, Chicago - that is about half the class applying ED to 5 schools.[/quote]

Huh.  So odds are probably pretty good for top students applying outside of these schools. Why did so many kids waste their ED spot on what is a total crap shoot?  [b]those colleges are not going to take more than 3-5 (very max) from any one private (even the top privates)[/b] [/quote]

What? No, this isn't true at all.[/quote]

PP pulled that specific 3-5 number out of the air but common sense tells one that a college isn't going to accept a large number of ed applicants all from the same HS, so it does impact Student A if he applies ED to NW and 15 other students from his class do the same (I am not sure where the school college counselor was in all of this. I know they can't "force" anything but you'd think that alerting the students to how many others were applying ED to NW would have caused some to shift ED elsewhere).[/quote]

Correct.  No top school is going to admit 12-15 kids from one high school.  They max out at about 5, more likely at 2 per school--even though the other kids from that school may be just as qualified. Look at the Instagram admit accounts or alumni magazines from the past 5 years (which list where kids are going to college)---this will prove my point. 
Penn may admit 10 kids TOTAL from DC.  They're not admitting all 10 from Sidwell or all 10 from GDS.  They will take 2 from each (and 1 from Walls and 2 from NCS and 1 from DCI... etc. (numbers made up)).  It's common sense that if 10 other kids are applying ED to an good college from your private high school then your odds at that school are REALLY LOW.      
That's why I think it's really weird that all those kids wasted their ED spot on the same schools. The vast majority are not getting in.  They will lose their spot to a classmate. [/quote]

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