College List vs. GC

mathmom
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:43:30 +0000

I disagree I think under some circumstance applying to a fair number of reaches may be a perfectly sensible strategy - my younger son loved his safety. He ended up with 1 safety and 6 reaches - he got into three reaches and a safety. Older son was one for whom any match school was a reach - he applied to two safeties and six reaches. Got into two safeties and two reaches. What if he’d only applied to the two reaches he thought he liked best? He’d have missed out on a great school.

My younger son didn’t like any of his supposed match schools better than his safety so he dropped them. My older son really had no match schools because for high stat tech kids they don’t really exist.

Both kids got into at least one school early so that they didn’t need to worry about being stuck high and dry in April.