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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of DC’s friends is regretting it because she was steered by school counselor to change her ED school.  It turned out now kids with lower stats are ED her original choice.  Should stick to your guns.[/quote]

My relative w 1550 SAT regretted early to BC. Felt should have aimed higher, but likes it.[/quote]

So why didn't they pick their actual top choice ?  However, their top choice should not be made based on "aiming higher" but rather on the best school for them.  That's the issue, pick what is top for your kid (hint not all T20 are the best for your kid, it's not possible) 
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DP. My kid didn’t because our private never gets anyone into this one school (barring an occasional athletic recruit) per out counselor. We weighed the odds and it seemed like a th  throwaway.  Kid was WL there during RD and then into many equivalent schools/other Ivies so now we think it might have worked out if he chose to SCEA there. Oh well. Happy at a different school, [/quote]

And that is a great choice.  ED to a school where the rates for everyone is low and knowing nobody from your school ever gets in would not be a smart choice.  Yes, then you look at the data and help your kid realize that it would be wasted (99.999% chance of that) so let's look at the 2nd choice and do that.  I get the gaming and in this case it's reasonable.  
what I don't get is people who do this then get buyers remorse about the "highly unattainable school".  You looked at the data and realized you were not getting in, so why waste your ED there.  Wrap your head around that and pick the next choice
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I agree with this.  The difference between top schools is not so vast.  Lots of people shoot for the moon and end of getting shut out of all of their top choices.  I think the mentality is 1st choice or bust, but really, in this market, any kid who gets into one of their top 3 favorite places should be thrilled.  And if your kid doesn't have at least 3 places where they're excited to attend, it's because the parents allowed them to fixate on one school to the exclusion of all of the other amazing schools out there.[/quote]

Exactly!

My kid's top "Safety" was so good, they seriously considered it in March and April of senior year and revisited it in April, despite 3 acceptances at schools in the 30-50 range and First year abroad at NEU.

That is what you want---you should have safeties you really like---yeah they only had 1 they really liked, but we knew they would get in most likely and 3 targets that were very likely---the safety was WPI, kid wanted Engineering, we are not from the NE so geographic diversity, and female.  And kid's ECs are not Engineering/stem, so even more attractive (and WPI pushes for more females to attend and more people who are not 10000% stem focused).  So a very targeted Safety where we were certain kid would gain admissions.

Had we only focused on Reaches, it would have been a miserable Dec-MAy, as kid was WL or rejected at all of them.  So happy we had the best targets and safeties (which is where your kid is likely ending up). It's your choice---but I highly recommend you focus on those

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