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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2023: 1 ED, 1 Rolling, 1 EA (both safeties). In at all, didn’t have to keep going after ED admit to SLAC.

2025: ED Ivy reach (reject), ED2 T20 reach (deferral), 1 rolling safety and 4 EA Safety (accepted all), 3 EA Target (accept 2, defer 1), 2 EA Reach (defer both)
RD (included deferrals from above): 1 Target (WL), 12 Reach (accepted 3, WL 5, rejected 4)

We classified schools based on their acceptance rates, over 50% was safety, 26-49 was target, and bellow 25 was reach. But all
The reaches on the list were under 20, most under 15%.

Total applications: 22, accepted 11, WL 6, rejected 5[/quote]

Where did your DC end up going?[/quote]

Also, looking back at the list, we could and should have cut some of the safeties and some of the reaches. They applied to, I would say, 10 schools with really had no interest or intention of attending. Got into 4 of them (all of the safety/targets, none of the 6 reaches in that group).

Cutting those would leave a list of 12 schools. Of those 12, the stats would have been 2 safeties (accepted 2), 3 targets (accepted 2, WL 1), 7 reaches (accepted 3, WL 3, rejected 1). Total acceptances would have been 7/12.

I think once they got rejected from the ED1 reach school, they and we had a bit of doubt and started adding schools, both “just in case” and “why not” because they had lost of essay variations written and it wasn’t a ton of extra work to do so.

This is easy to say in hindsight though. When you are in it, it’s hard to not add a school because you don’t know what the outcome will be and you want your kid to have choices. We could afford the application fees, so we said okay when they suggested adding a school and they said okay when we suggested adding one.

We are all happy with the outcome, and they are excited to start in a few weeks.[/quote]

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