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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand the knee-jerk reaction that a kid is taking spots from someone else. But I know two near-perfect candidates (stats and ECs) who shot-gunned nearly every Ivy and Stanford as well as Northwestern/Vanderbilt tier schools, and in both cases were almost universally rejected, except for a single acceptance by a higher tier school (Stanford and Dartmouth, respectively) as well as Northwestern. My point being, if they hadn't cast such a wide net, they probably wouldn't have gotten in somewhere they wanted to go. The process is so insane today that you need to cover your bases.[/quote] A kid cannot really think "every ivy, Stanford, NU, and Vandy" are the "best schools for them" Those schooslare all so different. And every kid that applies to 20+ schools like that is just driving down the acceptance rates at each school. [/quote]
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