<p>It makes sense – but I strongly recommend you rethink your strategy.</p>
<p>Why apply to a school that you don’t really want to attend? </p>
<p>Why are you only interested in a “big” school?</p>
<p>Are you going to need any financial aid, or are your parents able and willing to pay $40,000 each year that you attend?</p>
<p>I think you will find that teachers and the counselor at one boarding school are unlikely to write the type of excellent recommendation letters you need to get into the “big” schools, considering that you are basically telling them that you are too good for them.</p>
<p>You are currently in 9th grade, correct? So you spent 9th grade at one school, plan to spend 10th grade at another and then switch to yet another school in 11th? That is not a good thing for college applications – the constant school switching (particularly since it was voluntary) generally results in lower GPAs and lower class ranks, due to both the transition period that most students have and the recalculation that each school usually does.</p>
<p>I would suggest that you either apply to schools late that you might be admitted to (if you don’t need FA) or apply next year, and select schools where you are a good “fit”, not just the “big” schools.</p>