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Plus, ask your DD to split the application fee for the expensive schools; the application fees add up and you can offer to refund her portion of the fee to her for any of the schools that she receives acceptance.  She also should apply, as a baseline, to your and your DH's alma maters regardless of whether she 'wants' to go to either or not.  Ideally, any letters of reference to the private schools that are not your family's alma mater(s) will also be from an alum teacher (ie HS teacher who went to Yale writes the letter for the application to Yale).

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Legacy status at any of the Ivy League schools only makes a difference if the student applies Early Decision, and even then it's not much of a difference. Regular decision, forget it. Other schools, it may still make a difference but schools are moving away from legacy preference.

I also don't think your baseline application argument makes sense to start with. Different schools are fits for different people, and colleges (not to mention the admissions process) are very different than they were 20-30 years ago when most of us parents went to undergrad. My husband and I both went to a prestigious school, for example, but it was absolutely not the right fit for my oldest kid even though my husband and I both loved it when we were there. Also, admissions officers can see right through the applications where the kids were forced to apply because their parents went there, unless the kid can come up with their own good story about "why Mom's alma mater is a great fit for me."[/quote]

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