Is spike absolutely necessary for Stanford/Harvard/Ivys?

Thorsmom66
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:17:36 +0000

It is hard to see our kids disappointed - I went through this last year. At the same time, kids need to know that admissions decisions aren’t personal (how can they be since they don’t even really know you) and that they have no control over what a school’s institutional priorities are in any given year. Unless a student is hooked in some way (legacy, recruited athlete, child of major donor etc.), admissions to the tippy top schools are hard to predict. When 95% of applicants are denied, the odds are against you (and even if your odds are 5 times the average, you are still more likely to be rejected than not). If your child hasn’t identified a couple of target/likely schools that they would be enthusiastic about, it isn’t too late to add a couple to the list.