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<p>She needs to find schools she is interested in and would be excited to attend. </p>
<p>We made it very simple for our son when he thought he’d found his dream school; we weren’t paying for the dream school application or a visit to dream school until he had at least one match and one safety (including financial safety) that he was truly excited about. In the process, he dismantled his own idea of there only being one dream school and thank goodness for that because in spite of being highly competitive, the two most selective schools he applied to did not accept him (all the rest did, and believe me, it was wonderful to have real choices at that stage of the game.)</p>
<p>We do our kids no favors by letting them off the hook by applying to “dream school” and schools they think are just ok.</p>