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[quote=Anonymous][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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Yes, that is understood. Many, many times .  What still not been explained is why that is not unfair to the top student? Why should that student have fewer options?

Also, colleges have things called waiting lists for this very purpose.

This isn’t golf. The top player shouldn’t suffer from the handicap of others.
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Last year at our private school that limits apps, a kid got in Princeton SCEA. He was super hooked AT Princeton via a parent with close ties, but this is name brand rich family and any school would take him. Princeton was the "dream school" as communicated to counselor. He got in.  Yay. Then he decided he wanted to put in the rest of the apps to the limit "just to see".  This kid was going to Princeton, it was clear and the counselor called him/parents in to say, "What you're proposing will very likely take a seat from a classmate. I've been doing this a long time. I know the AOs at these schools. THey'll only take x number of our kids.  You're going to Princeton, so let's not do this". These people are pricks to be honest and they said they took the "high road" and only apply to Harvard and Stanford. The kid got into both and went to Princeton. This is what they want to avoid. [/quote]

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