<p>re: intparent post #14:</p>
<p>Many good comments, as you’re correct in that my post #5 info doesn’t apply to a lot of folks. I was just sharing a story that I thought might be helpful to others during the application process they’ll be going thru shortly. I certainly didn’t mean it as bragging and it wasn’t intended as such.</p>
<p>Also, in googling “LAC” I see I’ve embarrassingly mis-used it. Apologies, as I meant it as “local area college”, not “liberal arts college”. I’ve no bias against liberal arts colleges. Lots of kids from our area HS’s attend the local public college and since acceptance rate is reasonable they don’t need a lot of extra help in the application process. That’s how the comment was intended.</p>
<p>“This is the post of a wealthy, prestige-focused, do-most-of-the-work-for-my-kid and to h***-with-true-fit parent.”: Hmmm, not quite sure where to go with this comment as it’s not really a fair one. You’re assuming “wealthy”, when we could have $ from an accident settlement or a gift/promise from a grandparent or? Also, DS went to public school straight thru from K-12; no expensive private or boarding school. And by no means did we do most of the work for DS…we had to practically pry the password out of his hands to be able to review the common app before he sent it off. As to “true fits”, I’m a firm believer that with 3,500 colleges out there that there are likely a huge number of great fits for most kids.</p>
<p>“And 17 schools… just a stupid number to apply to”: Well, we only really applied to 7 of them; and the list of 17 was logical and possibly necessary. The first 2 applications sent off were for a safety and an ED round 1st choice/dream school. The next five were EA or RA with early due dates, all 5 of which wouldn’t say yes/no until the very end of January. The remaining 10 were all due in very early January — they’d have been necessary if ED school had said “no” and we still wouldn’t have hear back from the other 5 — we’d have been sitting on only a “yes” from the safety school.</p>