ED is the name of the game

[Anonymous]

We are in the "ED Honeymoon" phase. There is a possibility that they will regret not throwing their hats in the ring once they see the results of their classmates.

The game is still afoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ED is for rich people though.

Yes, exactly. It's the only way to go if you can afford it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For high stats kids. EA and RD are crapshoots.

+1

A lot of the DCUMer parents "merit hunting" for vanity purposes for their "high stats" kids will constructively get shut out in RD but for a school the kid is meh about. Then the "yield protection" claims will come.

Get ready for the wait list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in the "ED Honeymoon" phase. There is a possibility that they will regret not throwing their hats in the ring once they see the results of their classmates.

The game is still afoot.

There really should be no regret. Kids (should) know exactly what the tradeoffs are when they apply ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you apply ED you are locking yourself in to one school versus being able to compare merit offers from different schools.

By taking lower stats kids in ED schools get to select for full pay or price insensitive families.

how perverse. you know there are plenty enough full pay kids to fill the school's roster at the stats the school wants. But if it makes you feel better to think that only rich, lower stats kids get in ED, then sure.

Not every ED kid has lower stats. But if the average stats of the ED kids are lower than the average stats of the RD kids, then that means that rich kids who can commit to ED are getting in over kids who can’t commit to it.

[Anonymous]

My DD made was thankfully deferred after an ED application to a SLAC she liked but wasn't her absolute top choice. Perhaps she was settling because she ultimately got into Harvard during RD round.

Happy we got deferred from her ED so you could make a better choice in RD. She didn't expect to get into Harvard and we're so happy she did. But be careful about ED. If she had been admitted to her ED she wouldn't be at her actual #1 choice now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD made was thankfully deferred after an ED application to a SLAC she liked but wasn't her absolute top choice. Perhaps she was settling because she ultimately got into Harvard during RD round.

Happy we got deferred from her ED so you could make a better choice in RD. She didn't expect to get into Harvard and we're so happy she did. But be careful about ED. If she had been admitted to her ED she wouldn't be at her actual #1 choice now.

She chose to APPLY ED. That's on her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD made was thankfully deferred after an ED application to a SLAC she liked but wasn't her absolute top choice. Perhaps she was settling because she ultimately got into Harvard during RD round.

Happy we got deferred from her ED so you could make a better choice in RD. She didn't expect to get into Harvard and we're so happy she did. But be careful about ED. If she had been admitted to her ED she wouldn't be at her actual #1 choice now.

She chose to APPLY ED. That's on her.

Right. She's not a college and, I'm guessing, not a recruited athlete. That makes her a sucker. But she got lucky.

[Anonymous]

I wish our kid hadn’t done ED. Yes she got in. Honeymoon phase was brief followed by regrets. These are kids after all. Even if they think they really know their own mind, realizing they won’t have options to select from can be hard to actually accept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you apply ED you are locking yourself in to one school versus being able to compare merit offers from different schools.

By taking lower stats kids in ED schools get to select for full pay or price insensitive families.

how perverse. you know there are plenty enough full pay kids to fill the school's roster at the stats the school wants. But if it makes you feel better to think that only rich, lower stats kids get in ED, then sure.

Not every ED kid has lower stats. But if the average stats of the ED kids are lower than the average stats of the RD kids, then that means that rich kids who can commit to ED are getting in over kids who can’t commit to it.

They're not. Once you carve out the recruited athletes, they're almost always higher. At a lot of places, they're higher even without carving out the recruited athletes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish our kid hadn’t done ED. Yes she got in. Honeymoon phase was brief followed by regrets. These are kids after all. Even if they think they really know their own mind, realizing they won’t have options to select from can be hard to actually accept.

where did she get in?
major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD made was thankfully deferred after an ED application to a SLAC she liked but wasn't her absolute top choice. Perhaps she was settling because she ultimately got into Harvard during RD round.

Happy we got deferred from her ED so you could make a better choice in RD. She didn't expect to get into Harvard and we're so happy she did. But be careful about ED. If she had been admitted to her ED she wouldn't be at her actual #1 choice now.

She chose to APPLY ED. That's on her.

She was also 17 or 18. Take it easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD made was thankfully deferred after an ED application to a SLAC she liked but wasn't her absolute top choice. Perhaps she was settling because she ultimately got into Harvard during RD round.

Happy we got deferred from her ED so you could make a better choice in RD. She didn't expect to get into Harvard and we're so happy she did. But be careful about ED. If she had been admitted to her ED she wouldn't be at her actual #1 choice now.

She chose to APPLY ED. That's on her.

She was also 17 or 18. Take it easy.

Parents are older and are footing the tuition bill.

Hmm...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ED is for rich people though.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids had much better results in RD rounds.

ED can backfire easily. You pick a school if it is not your absolute tippy top first choice and have to go there without getting any chance to compare (or shop merit offers). Also, you rush an application early while kid is still figuring out what they want in college and bind yourself to the wrong college.

Did any of your kids apply ED? Probably not, so RD was it for them like 90% of the other applicants.