chances at a huge reach please

interesteddad
Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:25:30 +0000

It is very difficult to give you any guidance without knowing where he stands in relation to the rest of his class at the prestigious boarding school. I would think that the guidance office at his school would be in a much better position to accurately gauge reaches, matches, and safeties.

I know that you’ve only give a barebones outline, but unless there is some meat on the bones in his community service or unless he would be a recruited athlete, nothing is really jumping off the page that would make him stand out in Swarthmore’s applicant pool. I think he would obviously be a solid applicant, but would need to bring something interesting to life in his application to avoid the waitlist. Swarthmore is looking for specific “good fit” applicants and it’s hard to tell from the info you have provided whether he would be a Swarthmore type student.