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[quote=Anonymous]"If we could return to kids applying to 2-3 reaches, 2-3 targets and 2-3 safeties, then there would not be 60K apps for each T20 school"

No. Just no. There are so many problems with this argument.

1. The vast, vast, vast majority of students are not applying to the schools that receive 60K apps. They are also not applying to T20 schools. Very few kids have parents who will pay the application fee to NYU if it's clear that this is money down the drain. I think it was about $85 last year when my kid was a HS senior. We have a lot of disposable income, but there's no way that I would waste that money on an application to a school that DC had zero chance of being admitted to.

2. A reach school for the valedictorian at Blair HS or Sidwell is not a reach school for a kid in the bottom quartile at a South Carolina high school. And not everybody is capable of determining what college is an appropriate reach for them. Limiting people to 2-3 reaches doesn't do jack squat to decrease applications to any particular school. Those categories are way too vague and they are different for every single kid.

3. Until you can articulate how an applicant is harmed by having to compete against 59,999 other applicants, you haven't identified a problem that needs to be solved. [/quote]

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