<p>wjb, S dropped three schools from his list after getting into two of his three EAs (and his #1 and #3 choices). Part of it was that he knew by that point he wouldn’t choose those other schools over the ones he had already gotten into, and part of it was that he had friends who were desperately hoping for some of those very schools. He was fortunate to have some excellent choices and was thrilled for his friends when they were accepted at great places.</p>
<p>He did keep a couple of applications in play because we were looking for $$ and he was seriously interested in his #2 and #4. In retrospect, he could have gotten away with the four schools he really wanted (since those are precisely the schools that took him) and dropped the others. However, that as a riskier strategy than we were willing to accept. (He had ten on his list, applied to seven.)</p>