Too Many Choices????

jym626
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:10:44 +0000

A friend’s dau, valedictorian of a very well respected private school in a large metropolitan city, was rejected from Harvard, WL at Princeton, admitted to Duke, Vandy and Tulane. While yes, hopefully most top students will get into one top 20 school, no one truly knows which one it will be, and whether that school really is a good fit for that particular student. Hopefully the students will stop applying to the top 20 just because they are the top 20, ans will instead apply to the schools that are the best for them and ones that they really want to attend. To recommend that a top student apply to the top 20 just because they could get into one seems to focus on potential bragging rights rather than the best college experience.