College List vs. GC

cobrat
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:58:24 +0000

Youdon'tsay:

Perhaps the school wants to brag about its students’ accepance rate and so discourages reaches because they likely won’t get in.



They may also be trying to reduce the amount of work expended on a student they don’t feel is worth as much attention.

That was an issue at my public magnet where the administration tended to focus the lion’s share of attention on the top 10% of the seniors despite the fact that even the middle 75% of our graduating class tended to gain admission to elite or well-respectable unis/LACs or without necessarily having many hooks. I was one of them.

Moreover, GCs are human like everyone else and have strong biases for or against certain schools/students that must be accounted for by the students and/or their parents.