Should I apply to other schools?

compmom
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:02:38 +0000

If Harvard is your “dream school” then is it just the financial angle that would make you apply elsewhere?

I don’t think any school has better aid than Harvard, and the idea of bargaining sounds pretty unreasonable to me. You can certainly tell Harvard about any special circumstances (there is a place on the CSS Profile form for that).

If you just want to be able to say you got into a lot of Ivies etc. that is not a good reason. If getting into Harvard yourself somehow devalues it, then do some thinking about the actual experience of being there versus dreaming of getting in.

I would think you would be happy to get in and would then turn to enjoying your senior year. I just don’t understand at all why you would apply anywhere else, but that’s me.

Maybe you are so used to trying to “get in” that you cannot handle it when it happens. Seriously. That is a thing. Some kids get depressed when they get in because it has been their goal and motivator for so long, and now that goal is gone because it has been reached!!!