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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are thoughtful about your list and not shotgunning a bunch of reach school there's really no need to apply to more than 8-10 schools. [/quote]

^ This, in spades.[/quote]

Whether or not that is true, why should [i]you [/i]get to decide that, or any hs administration?

Shouldn't a student and their family be free to make that decision?

/FYI both my kids ED admits so this did not affect us, so no accusations please.  But right it right and this is wrong.[/quote]

Because the private school wants to pride themselves on the students getting into top schools.  That won't happen if the Top 10-15 kids get all the "admits" at the T10 schools. And yes, elite schools do limit how many they take from each HS.

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This is not what's happening though. The admits are all hooked. The college admissions have no problem choosing which hooked kids out of the pile they want. What's hard - and where the limit does the damage (and where it didn't do damage in the "old days" of 4 years ago) - is that not only are T25 mostly accepting hooked but that the T40 are too - or are expecting you to ED. It's really a crapshoot for unhooked private school kids with high stats/rigor.  It's fully reasonable that a thoughtful list could include more than 10.[/quote]

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