He's a rising senior. 4.6W, 4.0UW, 34 ACT, varsity athlete, school club leadership, non-profit volunteer. Wants to study statistics and sports analytics. He's in-state for UNC and according to SCOIR, 100% of students with his grades from his school get into Chapel Hill. He's using UNC-CH as his safety school. He's planning to ED to Duke, non-binding EA to UNC-CH, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan. RD to Harvard, Columbia, U-Penn, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and Northwestern. My fear is that every single one of these is a reach school and that he needs to include more targets and safeties in his search. I'm encouraging him to also apply to NC State, Georgia Tech, UVA, and Virginia Tech. He gets offended when I bring up these schools and says that he's worked too hard in high school to go anywhere below Chapel Hill. I just want him to have options and not feel like he's forced to go to a school because it's the only one he got accepted to. What do y'all think? Am I making too big a deal about applying to schools that he thinks are below his numbers or should I pull the dad-rank card and force him to diversify his applications? submitted by /u/El-Quisqueyano [link] [comments]