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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of a sophomore the thing I find concerning reading all these posts is that the system seems so capricious with a hefty dose of luck involved. My kid will probably be fairly high stats and I think is going to want to ED to a school ranked around 25. That may work out or not, and we get that and that other top schools are a lottery. What freaks me out a little is the stories of kids not getting into the safeties it’s been recommended they fall in love with either because of yield protection or increases in applications. It seems like some kids can fall betwixt and between. Hopefully applying to enough schools will lessen that risk however 1) it may be hard to “fall in love” with multiple safeties and 2) it does seem like all of that is just compounding the problem with kids feeling they need to apply to 15 plus schools to spread the risk. [/quote]

Another sophomore mom sweating alongside you for the same reason. It seems like things are in a spiral of ever increasing numbers of admissions, ever declining ways of showing merit, and rapidly falling odds of getting in at most [b]schools with any level of positive reputation[/b]. As someone said earlier in the thread, I have come to regard college admissions to anywhere but the local community college as a lottery, with the odds worsening by the day. I do not look forward to the first 3 months of 2024. [/quote]

Strongly suggest you open your mind to what might constitute positive reputations. Let go of admit rate as the sole arbiter and look at what kids do after, including grad school placements, etc.. There are good schools outside the NE and West coast corridors - good to find them, embrace them, in case they end up as your DC's target/safety and one of less than a handful of admits.
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