Help a current Junior with his college pursuit!

Please talk to the counseling folks at your boarding school. They will have a good sense of how students like you do in terms of admission at the colleges on your list.

Many many many college students never received prestigious awards. Do things you enjoy doing and do well. If you get an award, fine. If not, don’t fret about it.

As noted above, colleges will see the name of your high school. But please understand something…even if you had a perfect GPA in high school, it would not guarantee acceptance to your reach schools…because LOTS of kids applying have perfect GPAs and 90% or so get rejected from these colleges.

I agree that some of your Target schools should be moved to the reach section.

Are you happy with your sure things on this list of colleges? If so, you are fine.

My opinion…applying to 24 colleges is a lot. You will have to do a wonderful job on all of these applications and essays. I think you need to reduce this list to places that really are what you want…not a list of the schools that have the highest rankings (which is what this list looks like…your targets and reaches)

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