Senior here, I was accepted ED to an Ivy without submitting any test scores.
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Eldest: 10
Youngest: 1
Son in 2018 10. Daughter this year 16. I agree about all the mailings daughter got a few today.
Ten, for DD21, which was more than initially planned because school advised for most that more were needed this year due to uncertainty. 8 is the rough average pre-covid and was our target before this.
- Four safeties. His SAT and grades are top 1% so to me his matches are also reaches but he applied to two schools with acceptance rates in the 15-30% range and the rest are probably under 10%. With the increase in apps this year it wouldn’t surprise me to see acceptance rates drop to 2-3% for some of the ivies.
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My D applied to 14. We are chasing merit. I agree with many of you that some schools we thought were safeties/matches ended up not being so once decisions were released. She felt very fortunate to get acceptances from her in-state options (free tuition)! She applied with test scores.
Accepted - 5 with nice merit (includes the in-state)
Accepted - 1 without merit (OOS public)
Accepted - 1 waiting to hear about merit
Deferred/waitlisted - 2
Waiting to hear from the rest. The waiting!! Ugh!!
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rip i applied to 23; rejected ed and accepted into 2 so far
Have to LOL your political hedge. I was encouraging S21 to apply to U of Toronto and UBC for same reasons (plus, hello!, Toronto and Vancouver are awesome!), but he was all, “Mom, it’s going to be ok. Really.” 
D17 applied to 6.
D21 applied to 13.
The difference = NO TOURS AND NO SCORES
D17 toured so many schools before deciding on her 6.
D21 has not seen any of her schools, except for the 1 school that she toured with her sister back in 2016! Also, never took the SAT.
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“No tours, no scores”…
That has the makings of a Dr. Seuss book adapted to applying to colleges.
(Sorry, my brain is really losing it’s higher levels of thought these weeks.)
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We are internationals and have watched some scaling back of visa benefits over the last four years in the US while Canada has been very proactive on that front. A handful of kids from our school in previous classes have ended up in Canadaian schools.
We had always defaulted to US schools, but some of the Canadian schools really impressed us. Ended up applying to University of Toronto.
My daughter applied to 11 (all EA). With her UIUC acceptance today, she’s been accepted at 10 and deferred from Michigan. In retrospect, I wish she had tried a few more reach schools, but she was dead set on large Midwestern schools in smaller towns/cities, so that really limited her options.
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International student - I applied to 19
7 reaches (5 privates, 2 OOS publics)
3 matches (2 OOS publics, 1 private)
9 safeties as hoping for merit (7 OOS publics, 2 privates)
I did 13 EA and 6 RD
I was accepted to all 9 of my safeties EA with merit and honors at 6 of them and was also accepted into two of my reaches EA with honors at one of them. I was rejected from a reach school REA and deferred from a match school. Still waiting on my 6 RDs.
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As an immigration attorney, I’d say Canada and U.K. schools would be a better bet than U.S., especially for students from India and China. I don’t know where you are from. Unless you are non-India/China STEM, working in the U.S. for more than a year after graduating is tough. I’ve seen it all too often.
We should see some positive immigration changes under this administration if Congress does its work, but there are some changes like increase the # of H-1B work visas that I don’t have a lot of confidence will happen.
My 2 cents.