Have you broken an early decision contract?

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Anonymous wrote:Our kid’s school makes you withdraw other applications as soon as you get your ED results.

Do you mean high school?

yes. our college counselors would be all over someone trying to back out of their ED. And they wouldn't send out the senior year first marking period grades to the EA/RD schools.

Is this a private school? Because our public school can barely handle basic college admissions tasks and actually failed to send out transcripts this year for students applying EA.

+1. The public school counselors can barely keep up with deadlines. No way they are tracking whether a kid was admitted ED And they shouldn’t send a transcript to another school. If DS hadn’t told his counselor he was admitted ED the counselor would have never known.

Schools sharing ED lists is presumably to other ED schools. Don’t think they share their ED list with nonED schools.

All a kid has to say is change in financial circumstances and they are released. No one knows the unique circumstances of each family.

Really? Does your school have naviance or scoir? Then they are tracking ED and RD decisions.


Not to mention that the counselor has to electronically sign the ED application (not the case for RD).

Naviance doesn’t track ED v RD at the two MCPS schools my kids attend.

The counselors still sign the ED agreement and have the acceptance data. That’s all the info they need.

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Would be met with a lot of drama at our Big-3, unless the contract was broken for demonstrated financial reasons. The ratio of counselors to students is small enough that the counselors would keep track, and there would be repercussions. Not a smart move, especially if the student has younger siblings at the school.

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I’ve alway been suspicious about ED from an equity standpoint. I can’t take schools seriously who claim to care about equity but continue with ED and legacy admissions. After reading these comments I now think the DOJ should be investigating these schools with ED policies for antitrust violations. Black balling high schools? Contacting peer schools to black ball students. Something smells rotten.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve alway been suspicious about ED from an equity standpoint. I can’t take schools seriously who claim to care about equity but continue with ED and legacy admissions. After reading these comments I now think the DOJ should be investigating these schools with ED policies for antitrust violations. Black balling high schools? Contacting peer schools to black ball students. Something smells rotten.

Read the thread—the DOJ opened an investigation in 2018 and dropped it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve alway been suspicious about ED from an equity standpoint. I can’t take schools seriously who claim to care about equity but continue with ED and legacy admissions. After reading these comments I now think the DOJ should be investigating these schools with ED policies for antitrust violations. Black balling high schools? Contacting peer schools to black ball students. Something smells rotten.

Who is excluded from ED? Anyone can apply ED.