<p>What we don’t know is daughtershelper’s definition of reach vs. yours. Some believe a high reach is a school where they are not above the 75th percentile (my definition when dealing with schools accetping under 15%), and others believe it’s just where you’re below the 25th.</p>
<p>I agree that no one can do 17 high quality applications while maintaining a rigorous academic schedule and the kind of ECs top colleges want. You risk blowing them all.</p>
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<p>These posts are quite dangerous as to how they may be perceived by aspiring college students. Did they pick up on that you felt like you won the lottery or was their takeaway that your daughter got into a highly selective school whose process may be arbitrary?</p>
<p>I really don’t think that Brown University takes many ‘high reach’ white females without some hook - I really don’t. So, as others have pointed out, what daughtershelper’s perception of her daughter’s reachness (new word) may not be the school’s perception. </p>
<p>It’s also dangerous because this is CC. Parents (particularly) are more likely to post success stories than cautionary tales - it’s just human nature. Thus there is an imbalance skewed to success. The problem is those success stories are just what some students want to hear and want to believe.</p>
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Yes, it’s time we took the economy into our own hands… New plan! Everyone apply like normal to all the schools you want to go to, then send the Common App to every other school possible, to make them hire new admissions staff! We’ll see an economic BOOM.</p>
<p>(This’ll work, right?)</p>
<p>^hahahahaha I’m gonna go ahead and apply for a job in Clemson’s admissions office when they get 6 billion applications. :)</p>