College List vs. GC

thumper1
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:21:51 +0000

You know…as long as your child has safety and match schools that she would LIKE to attend, then really apply all you want to those reaches. Our daughter originally applied to ONLY three safety/match schools. She was very happy with those three choices. We asked her to add a school close to home and she asked if she could add a reach if she added the close to home school. Truthfully…we should have left her alone with the three original schools.

If you don’t mind paying the application fees…then really it’s your business. But as noted, the GC is probably trying to give you her honest assessment at good bets.

I will say…in BOTH of our kids cases, the GC told them not to bother applying to the school they attended. In both cases, the GCs were misinformed for one reason or another (in DD’s case, they knew nothing about the school other than what they read online…in DS’s case…he was a music major, and the GC knew only about academic admissions).