Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your DC has very high stats (top 5% of class, most rigorous classes and 1500+ SAT) and also hopes to go to a highly rejective college, they might be in the zone where they decide to apply to a lot of colleges. It’s a numbers game, and while there is a lot of correlation among acceptances, the more applications, the higher the chances.

If that’s your kid’s hope, then tune out all the people who will surely respond here that there’s no point. When they say if you’re rejected by Harvard you’re also likely to be rejected by Yale. What matters more is that your kid is likely to be rejected by each of these schools, but the more applications, the higher their chances.

Mathematically, this poster’s statement is untrue. Each school is its own “lottery,” so applying to more schools doesn’t increase one’s odds at any particular school. What is fair - and perhaps the poster’s intent - is that even among the best schools AOs may be looking for slightly different candidates or have somewhat different applicant pools. In that case, applying to more schools may increase a kid’s chance of hitting one where their combination of achievements fits what the school is looking for. That is to say, the odds of your kid “fitting” a desired profile at various schools may be different at different schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your DC has very high stats (top 5% of class, most rigorous classes and 1500+ SAT) and also hopes to go to a highly rejective college, they might be in the zone where they decide to apply to a lot of colleges. It’s a numbers game, and while there is a lot of correlation among acceptances, the more applications, the higher the chances.

If that’s your kid’s hope, then tune out all the people who will surely respond here that there’s no point. When they say if you’re rejected by Harvard you’re also likely to be rejected by Yale. What matters more is that your kid is likely to be rejected by each of these schools, but the more applications, the higher their chances.

Mathematically, this poster’s statement is untrue. Each school is its own “lottery,” so applying to more schools doesn’t increase one’s odds at any particular school. What is fair - and perhaps the poster’s intent - is that even among the best schools AOs may be looking for slightly different candidates or have somewhat different applicant pools. In that case, applying to more schools may increase a kid’s chance of hitting one where their combination of achievements fits what the school is looking for. That is to say, the odds of your kid “fitting” a desired profile at various schools may be different at different schools.

Anonymous wrote:If your DC has very high stats (top 5% of class, most rigorous classes and 1500+ SAT) and also hopes to go to a highly rejective college, they might be in the zone where they decide to apply to a lot of colleges. It’s a numbers game, and while there is a lot of correlation among acceptances, the more applications, the higher the chances.

If that’s your kid’s hope, then tune out all the people who will surely respond here that there’s no point. When they say if you’re rejected by Harvard you’re also likely to be rejected by Yale. What matters more is that your kid is likely to be rejected by each of these schools, but the more applications, the higher their chances.

Anonymous wrote:High school class of 2019: 5, accepted to all (2 reaches, 3 targets, 1 safety)

High school class of 2021: 12 (accepted at 2 safeties and 2 targets; denied at 5 reaches and 3 targets)

Anonymous wrote:High school class of 2019: 5, accepted to all (2 reaches, 2 targets, 1 safety)

High school class of 2021: 12 (accepted at 2 safeties and 2 targets; denied at 5 reaches and 3 targets)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oldest 12; 4 high reaches, 6 high target/low reaches, 2targets (I was extremely nervous that she had no true safeties). Accepted at 6, waitlisted at 2, rejected at 4.
Second 1 reach. Accepted in ED. Recruited athlete.
Expect youngest will apply to 10 or so unless he can get recruited to play his sport.

Op here. I feel like DS’s safeties are actually not true safety. I think he won’t be happy if he ends up at a true safety, which is why I thought it may be better to apply to a lot of schools that are low reaches/targets.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those PPs whose child was accepted ED one-and-done, perhaps it would help OP to indicate the actual number of colleges that were on the list, that is, planned applications that would have been submitted if ED had not been so "easy."

Well I posted earlier about my DD applied to five and probably had
3-4 in mind if she didn’t get in. So total of 8-9.

My DS had another 5-6 on his list if he didn’t get into his ED.

No need to be obnoxious.

Anonymous wrote:For those PPs whose child was accepted ED one-and-done, perhaps it would help OP to indicate the actual number of colleges that were on the list, that is, planned applications that would have been submitted if ED had not been so "easy."

Anonymous wrote:For those PPs whose child was accepted ED one-and-done, perhaps it would help OP to indicate the actual number of colleges that were on the list, that is, planned applications that would have been submitted if ED had not been so "easy."