College List vs. GC

alynor
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:27:15 +0000

S doesn’t get much feedback from his GC at all. The kids log on to docufide/parchment to send their transcripts. I haven’t figured out yet if the GC does anything other than load school info to the common app.

The most common advice I’ve seen is to apply to 2 safeties, 3 matches and 3 reaches, but that seems to be a low target for high stat kids for whom matches are really reaches. One of S’s friends has already applied to 15.

Is there a general consensus on which schools are always reaches? Top 20 or top 30? Admission rates under 20% or under 40%? I keep worrying that S has only one safety and everything else is a reach, even the ones where his stats are top quartile.