@Hunt It’s funny, but each of my kids insisted that there were no highly selective schools to which they did not apply that they would have preferred to any of their matches or safeties. I wanted them to apply to more, but they didn’t like those colleges. We did make our second child apply to one such college as a favor to us, but he put in his “Why X” essay that he didn’t want to go there but his parents were making him apply. So that was a waste.