ED strategy

[Anonymous]

I think this should absolutely play a role in where you ED. If there are 10 other kids from your school applying there, and 3 are legacies and 2 are recruited athletes, move on. You're highly unlikely to get in!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this should absolutely play a role in where you ED. If there are 10 other kids from your school applying there, and 3 are legacies and 2 are recruited athletes, move on. You're highly unlikely to get in!

How do you know "10 other kids from your school applying there, and 3 are legacies and 2 are recruited athletes"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think this should absolutely play a role in where you ED. If there are 10 other kids from your school applying there, and 3 are legacies and 2 are recruited athletes, move on. You're highly unlikely to get in!

How do you know "10 other kids from your school applying there, and 3 are legacies and 2 are recruited athletes"?

You will def know if you are at a private. Everyone knows.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think this should absolutely play a role in where you ED. If there are 10 other kids from your school applying there, and 3 are legacies and 2 are recruited athletes, move on. You're highly unlikely to get in!

How do you know "10 other kids from your school applying there, and 3 are legacies and 2 are recruited athletes"?

You will def know if you are at a private. Everyone knows.

I am at a private and do not know.

[Anonymous]

How do the parents at Sidwellz know who is applying where?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do the parents at Sidwellz know who is applying where?

Thank you for calling out my typo . Shouldn’t reply on phone.

Short answer of how kids know who applies where: they attend the info session and talk. But I don’t think this is a foolproof strategy and may miss some applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:How do the parents at Sidwellz know who is applying where?

Thank you for calling out my typo . Shouldn’t reply on phone.

Short answer of how kids know who applies where: they attend the info session and talk. But I don’t think this is a foolproof strategy and may miss some applicants.

What info sessions are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do the parents at Sidwellz know who is applying where?

Thank you for calling out my typo . Shouldn’t reply on phone.

Short answer of how kids know who applies where: they attend the info session and talk. But I don’t think this is a foolproof strategy and may miss some applicants.

What info sessions are you talking about?

The info session where college AO visits school. Generally, kids interested enough to apply early attend those sessions. And, kids talk to each other then (though could definitely be an absent student or someone holding cards close, hence not a foolproof strategy).

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Anonymous wrote:How do the parents at Sidwellz know who is applying where?

Thank you for calling out my typo . Shouldn’t reply on phone.

Short answer of how kids know who applies where: they attend the info session and talk. But I don’t think this is a foolproof strategy and may miss some applicants.

What info sessions are you talking about?

I think she means on campus visits where kids go to meet with the visiting admissions rep.

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Anonymous wrote:How do the parents at Sidwellz know who is applying where?

Thank you for calling out my typo . Shouldn’t reply on phone.

Short answer of how kids know who applies where: they attend the info session and talk. But I don’t think this is a foolproof strategy and may miss some applicants.

What info sessions are you talking about?

The info session where college AO visits school. Generally, kids interested enough to apply early attend those sessions. And, kids talk to each other then (though could definitely be an absent student or someone holding cards close, hence not a foolproof strategy).

A student may attend many college visits. How do you know which college he will apply ED? Kids only talk with their friends about colleges, right? Are kids broadcast what college they will apply?

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Anonymous wrote:How do the parents at Sidwellz know who is applying where?

Thank you for calling out my typo . Shouldn’t reply on phone.

Short answer of how kids know who applies where: they attend the info session and talk. But I don’t think this is a foolproof strategy and may miss some applicants.

What info sessions are you talking about?

The info session where college AO visits school. Generally, kids interested enough to apply early attend those sessions. And, kids talk to each other then (though could definitely be an absent student or someone holding cards close, hence not a foolproof strategy).

A student may attend many college visits. How do you know which college he will apply ED? Kids only talk with their friends about colleges, right? Are kids broadcast what college they will apply?

Like I said, may not be completely reliable but when the school is small (75 kids/class) and kids talk, they share a lot of info. Would imagine very different at larger schools.

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Anonymous wrote:How do the parents at Sidwellz know who is applying where?

Thank you for calling out my typo . Shouldn’t reply on phone.

Short answer of how kids know who applies where: they attend the info session and talk. But I don’t think this is a foolproof strategy and may miss some applicants.

What info sessions are you talking about?

The info session where college AO visits school. Generally, kids interested enough to apply early attend those sessions. And, kids talk to each other then (though could definitely be an absent student or someone holding cards close, hence not a foolproof strategy).

A student may attend many college visits. How do you know which college he will apply ED? Kids only talk with their friends about colleges, right? Are kids broadcast what college they will apply?

Agree with this 100%. At small private schools everyone knows what the top schools/ED the kids are targeting - especially if there is a legacy or recruited athlete element. Safeties may be less known.

Like I said, may not be completely reliable but when the school is small (75 kids/class) and kids talk, they share a lot of info. Would imagine very different at larger schools.

[Anonymous]

Your child should only ED at a school that they absolutely want to attend as their first choice and you as a family can afford to pay for.

Test Optional has kind of screwed things up, because places a student once would have of course gotten in, are now total crap shoot schools. Not just top 20, I would say top 50. So many more applications, from kids who never would have applied because their test scores were nowhere near what the schools were wanting

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Anonymous wrote:Some college needs to offer a course based on game theory of college admissions. (A paper probably exists somewhere, but I don’t have time to find it).

Game theory does not work for college admissions, unfortunately. At all. Mostly because you can't have the reasons for the outcomes so you can't judge real odds, and also because admissions are independent events from college to college. But this book is informative and helpful regarding ED, even though it's a few years old now

https://www.amazon.com/Early-Admissions-Game-Joining-chapter/dp/0674016203

A summary:

- Applying ED gives a huge bump in changes to the applicant, especially at need aware schools
- Despite this bump the advantages of ED to the school far outweigh those of the applicant
- The authors conclusion is ED is unfair (which I partially, but not totally, agree with)

It's well worth a read and there are used copies out there cheap.

Thanks. I may read, but next year - when it is less personal and more academic. For now, I may need to stick to books like Zen Shorts that help calm my nerves. Good luck to all of our kids in the crazy process.

Zen Shorts is one of my all time favorite books. Made me smile to see you mention it here.

[Anonymous]

Whenever I see one of these posts, my first thought is Viagra. Grow old but not up.