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<p>Bingo!! Make it TWO safety schools in these precarious times. If you have a safety school that you really wouldn’t mind attending, then you can use your other 6 choices to “shoot for the moon.” </p>
<p>But I also agree with momrath that 8 is not enough for kids who intend to apply to HYPSM and possibly AWS. A kid could apply to 6 super selective schools and easily get into none of them, depending on which 6 he or she applies to. Because of the “subjective” factor, an expanded list of schools may have yielded at least one acceptance.</p>