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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Application numbers are restricted so the top students don’t get all of the acceptances. They need to spots open at top colleges for the next tier of students. [/quote]

This is it.  
Do you guys not get it or are all your kids in the top 10%?

I have a straight A student at GDS.  Do you really want him applying to all the top 20 schools?  your B student is not going to get admitted if both our kids apply.  [/quote]

I thought we are in a free country...  How could a school restrict kids how many schools they can apply?[/quote]
Because GDS is a private school, and sending your child there is entirely voluntary. If you doin't like their rules, you should pull your kids out and find a school that allows you to apply to more than 10 colleges.[/quote]

Not a GDS parent but this comment has no basis in reality.  Parents applying to HS don't know that GDS is going to restrict applications.[/quote]

Caveat emptor. I don't know of any highly selective independent school in the area that allows students to apply to as many colleges as they want. Do you?[/quote]

[b]I know that ours gives good counseling advice on how many to apply to but doesn't restrict.[/b] I am ok with this.  I am also in the "10-12 is plenty" camp - there is a lot of value in putting in the work to create a thoughtful list. With that work done, a student can also submit higher quality applications. Finally, if they still get shut out of top 10, top 20, top 30 - it will all be fine (but I know others aren't ok with some of these stances).

But despite my own feelings, I'm still saying it's not really fair to say "you chose private school and if you don't like it go elsewhere" when a person who applied for their child to start at GDS for 9th grade might not have been hyper focused on the details of college admissions.  For some people this sort of detail might not be discovered until later, not to mention policies change over time (they have at our school, for sure).

I know it's hard to believe, but there are actually parents who do not choose a Big X HS with Ivy-or-bust college placement in mind.   
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Is this a Big-3? AFAIK, Sidwell, GDS, and the Cathedral schools all limit to around 10.[/quote]

NCS does not limit.  As a NCS family, we support that.[/quote]
NCS has the reputation as being the worst of the pressure-cooker schools in this area. Not great from a mental health perspective to allow limitless college apps.[/quote]

You attack a school for a different reason because the school does not match your claim?  For one thing, NCS is not the worst of the pressure-cooker schools.  Another big 3 is (you can figure it out).  Based on our experience, limiting the number of colleges a student can apply creates a lot of anxieties.

Limiting the number might work in the old days.  But under test optional and other changes in policies (e.g. first gen), non-top students in private schools benefit the most from applying widely.
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For those non- top students, don’t they benefit from the top students skipping those applications?  If a top kid applied to more than 10-12, they would likely add safeties that the non- top kids are applying.  [/quote]

yes, i don't understand why people think that unlimited apps would benefit the average student.  This actually really hurts the average student.

If NCS allows unlimited apps it makes sense as their college admissions this year were really bimodal--more than the other top high schools.  Girls (non sports recruits) seemed to either 
get into top schools or schools ranked 100+.  In contrast, GDS seemed to get a larger number of kids into top 50 schools---a few to each school.   NCS (for non sports admits) was literally either Princeton/Penn for the top kids or Penn State/Alabama for some of the rest.  I really wonder if this is because those Princeton/Penn kids also got all the Michigan, Virginia, etc. spots. [/quote]

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