Where is your DC applying ED?
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Anonymous
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Why does everyone think it's harder to get into a top college when it's demonstrably easier?
http://youtu.be/le2dkeYnEzA John Katzman's "hacking college admissions" explains why it is important to fall in love with more than one elite school. |
Anonymous
There are just so many seats and so, so many applicants. It's the numbers. |
Anonymous
As explained in the video, the increase in the number of seats at elite universities has exceed the growth in the number of students seeking those seats (even AFTER accounting for foreign students) - so the numbers prove it is easier to AN elite school than it was in the past, but it is more difficult to get into any ONE particular elite school. So if you have your heart set on just one particular elite school you are more likely to be disappointed than in the past, but if you will be satisfied with one of 10 elite schools you are more likely to be admitted. |
Anonymous
Okay so change the post title to "Where is your DC applying Early". This argument about semantics is silly. If we have kids applying to college we don't need to be schooled in the definitions, we are all too familiar with them. Mine applied last year to one Ivy ED and 2 EA schools. Deferred ED, one defer, one acceptance EA. We discussed whether it was a waste to use the ED on the Ivy because it was a stretch, but the other top choices only had EA or REA and none provided an admissions bump so it wasn't really wasted. |
Anonymous
| Why do so many posters not name the schools that are applied to? Seems oddly secretive. |
Anonymous
It may be true that more kids will get into one of more colleges within a particular range that they are qualified for. But it is still harder to get into a particular college, I think, with people applying to so many more schools. Allowing kids to apply to 15-20 schools means that there is a lot of movement after acceptances come out. When kids get around to saying no to some schools, then the waitlist kicks in, and by that point disappointed students may have made other arrangements. The application frenzy also means kids don't carefully decide in advance what schools are really a good fit for them, and I believe many more kids end up transferring after their first year than they did in my day. DC reported that one classmate is applying to all of the "top 20" universities (assuming that means USNWR) indiscriminately. That just seems absurd. What am I missing here? |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
May be there are first time parents who find knowing the differences useful. Not everyone is as well informed as you are. |
Anonymous
Thanks, College Board. |
Anonymous
LOL! |
Anonymous
Agree 100%. I really think there needs to be a cap on the number of schools students can apply to. I don't know how that would be implemented, but the system as it is now and as you described above just creates so much undue stress. |
Anonymous
I think you shouldn't concern yourself with the number of applications filed by anyone other than your own kid. And even then, just to pay the application fee. |
Anonymous
Because then all the other parents will steer their kids to that college and the odds of pp's kid getting in would decrease. 
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Anonymous
| Harvard, Early Action. Tough call versus Stanford. Plus a state school, most likely UVA. |
Anonymous
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DC is applying to Purdue and Miami University early to qualify for merit aid.
He hemmed and hawed about applying to Virginia Tech ED, but decided that since it was binding and Purdue is his first choice - he wanted to see what the financial package from Purdue would be before deciding on Tech. The money difference is substantial if he does not get any merit aid at Purdue and may sway him to Tech. |