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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that not many on this forum have empathy for Big 3 kids. That's fine and even understandable, but the nastiness is misplaced and not very nice. These are kids after all.

Plenty of these kids are on full financial aid or have parents working in gov't who sacrifice a LOT to send their kids to private school. Make no mistake, the real "rich kids" at these schools are fine. Their parents still make a donation, use their status/fame, or have a powerful pal make a call to the Ivy admissions office. Everyone sees it. Those aren't the kids who've gotten screwed once again this year. [/quote]

If you stretched to pay tuition for "Big 3 private" and thought this meant you will get into a T20 school, you were misinformed.  You should do it for the education your kid gets.  Bright, smart kids will do just fine anywhere and most in the Big3 will get into many T80-100 schools if they would just apply to targeted ones outside the T20-30.  You are no different than a smart kid who went to public HS in FCPS or HCPSS, well except for the fact their parents did not directly pay $30K+ per year for HS.  Top 20-30 schools are NOT a target or Safety for ANYONE. Just because you spent $30K+ for HS tuition does not change that.  95% of kids applying to the T20 schools would be ideal candidates.  But with 40K+ applying to EACH school and only 1400-2000 slots at most of them, 95%+ of them will get denied.  Applying to all 20 does NOT statistically increase your chances of getting accepted by much---just like buying 20 tickets for MegaMillions does not statistically increase your chances by much. Fact is majority who apply will get turned down.

But if you have a well curated list of colleges applications, you will have good targets (hint they need acceptance rates above 25%minimum and your kid needs to be at/+ 50-75% and your kid should get into 1-2 of them and most of their safeties.  
The people who claim "bloodbath" seem to be those that thought Tufts was a Target because "it's not T20" yet has single digit acceptance rates, or NEU is a Target, despite there being 90K+ applications and a single digit acceptance rate, etc.   I feel for these kids because they have been taught "it's T20 or bust and their life is ruined", nobody guided them to have a balanced list of choices and to have them focus on their real targets and real safeties and find ones they will actually like to attend.  Because if you truly pick the right targets and safeties, your kid should have 1-2 of targets and safeties at a minimum they get accepted to.  
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