<p>I didn’t have the patience to read every single post, so forgive me if I repeat something already said. For a student like my D, who is not a top tier candidate, but also not willing to consider safeties as matches, applying to more schools was imperative. She is a match for half of the 15 schools she applied to, but in this climate, that doesn’t mean a whole lot, considering the enormous amount of people applying to school this year. If it was 5 years ago, she would have applied to half as many and gotten in to more.</p>
<p>To be deferred by a match school early on (a 70% match) only spurred her on to apply to more schools. I wholeheartedly believe that somehow the large amount of applications, added to the the record number of applicants, is having an effect on this process this year. </p>
<p>We all want our kids, or ourselves, to succeed and have every option possible. It’s hard to be considerate of others when we are all scared and anxious.</p>