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It's gotten kind of ridiculous. My daughters applied to 18 and 22 schools respectively. Why? Because the admit rates of the schools they wanted were so low. Hence, the cycle.

It would be slightly illuminating to also publish the statistics of how many applications aspiring freshmen are submitting. Not to mention, we paid $70-$100 per application.




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