@amd2019 I believe the advice @socaldad2002 and @washugrad are giving you relates more to admissions to low chance of admissions schools (about 75 schools), whereas the advice @bjkmom is giving you relates to the large majority of colleges kids apply to. I personally found that we received all the advice we needed here and we were targeting low chance of admission schools. Why don’t you spend a couple of weeks looking on this site and posting some more questions and you can better assess this yourself.