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<p>CC’s “what are my chances” threads generally might provide reassurance, but for the top schools no one on here (or perhaps not most) is an expert wrt admissions. We can provide a good guess (perhaps an educated one?) but certainly not determine whether someone will be admitted or not. Similar things can be said of private counselors.</p>
<p>Schools like Princeton are largely exceptions in that their admissions are hard to determine, and they get many qualified applicants every year. My point still applies that the people who apply to schools like Princeton are a small minority. Chances are there’s a large overlap between the people who apply to the ivies + Stanford, Duke, MIT, Chicago, etc. The same might be said about people applying to the top LACs. (i.e. SWAMP) These students are a small minority of the 2000 institutions i listed in my OP in this thread. The private counselors probably get their clients from this base as well.</p>