Your Top Choice May Not Be The "One".

LifeLongNYer
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:23:54 +0000

I think it is good advice that your “top choice” may not be top for you. But perhaps also we can learn from @ccnaf14 that falling in love with a school when your GPA and SSAT scores are below their average range, especially at the expense of all other school applications is not an advisable strategy. I can not imagine as a parent how you could let your child set themselves up for failure like that. I cringe when I read the chance me threads from kids who have fallen in love with an acronym school even though numerically they know it is a long shot. It is wonderful that it worked out for ccnaf but the whole process could have been much smoother for her if she had applied to a range of schools instead of zeroing on one which they cynics at CC would have been quick to tell her was a long shot. She was fortunate that she didn’t need FA, because the odds of still finding some after having applied only to Middlesex would have been slim at best and the ending might not have been as happy.