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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of this has to do with your child's major.

In CS, schools that are strong matches or very feasible reaches become high unlikely. My son was only accepted to safeties which he only applied to because they thought they might offer full merit rides based on his credentials. And we had looked at all the numbers- when you have a near perfect SAT and GPA everything (except Naviance) will tell you you are a strong match for everything all the way to the ivys. Naviance will at least show you that your school isnt favored by the top tier even with kids with very good scores.  However Naviance also told us that he was a likely shoe in for all matches - he got into none of them because of the competitiveness of the major.  If you are in a major like this, the general acceptance rates are worthless. I'd probably look at Naviance to see if you school is just overall disliked by the college and then for those where your school is not banned through history, look at college confidential threads and see who go in for your major last year and what their stats were.

If you are are in a regular major you probably don't have to go to this trouble.[/quote]

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