We came to realize that this process is a racket - and a way to change the numbers for the more “elite” schools that are competing for those top ratings. They wooed our daughter, who had great stats - had her in the middle of all the schools rate 5-15. She was inundated with emails and printed material. In the end, she applied to 7 of them and they all rejected her. REALLY hard to take. This is a kid with better numbers and lots of extracurriculars. We had to scramble ad do some late apps. Which has turned out to be a wonderful thing. Those schools are begging for her, and they are backing it up with $$. What we learned is - Need Blind is a FARCE!!