Sybbie719, Sorry, I should have clarified. If my son had stayed around for senior year, all classes would have been at the local U. We did reach 2:3 HYP schools, and that was what we were told.
Then we followed the advice of his GC and got teacher recommendations in the next day, which was Thursday prior to winter break, and those had to be in by the next day. (I won’t go into more details here.)
Applying in this fashion really hurt son’s chances at many elite schools. Fortunately, the technology schools were understanding.