regardless if he is over/under or sideways once he got his first choice early…and it’s Stanford no less…then I can’t help but think this is what contributes to the out of control applications and low acceptance rates that is the mess we are in today.
A couple more, for comparing purposes, ok, but not the amount and tier of schools in this list. This is contributing to the mess, nothing more.
Would be ‘happy’ for any deserving kid getting into any of those colleges but when I see that number of applications I smh since I went and got a part time job working nights and weekends, in addition to my full time job, to save enough to help pay the cost of the applications and sending test scores etc. for my equally high stat/well rounded kid for a shot at a few of those schools knowing full well that regardless of the script, that they don’t restrict how many they take from any one school, the years of results says different. When a college takes less than 1000 for an incoming class you are most definitely taking a spot from someone else. YMO