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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it that common for 30 Sidwell kids to apply early to two schools?  Seems so unwise. [/quote]
New poster.  Isn't this a "damned if you do / damned if you don't" situation?  Whether it's Sidwell or some other school, if college counselors encourage students to apply to all the top colleges they might want, the college counselors are criticized for creating a competitive logjam where lots of students get lots of rejection letters.  And furthermore, many parents wring their hands about the hyper-focus on Ivy education to the exclusion of all else.

But if college counselors discourage some students from applying to these top colleges (perhaps even because they know there are lots of other better-qualified applicants from the same class), the college counselors are accused of improperly steering students away from their top choices, accused of showing favoritism toward the few students they encourage to apply to the top colleges, and mocked as foolish whenever some student who was discouraged from applying gets lucky enough to be admitted anyway.  There's a whole other thread trending right now on DCUM with all these same sentiments.  It's a no-win situation IMHO.[/quote]

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