How/When did you know what school to ED to?

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Anonymous wrote:The absolute best thing about ED is so mom can still update the family holiday newsletter with your big announcement!

it's not 1972. people dont do this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The absolute best thing about ED is so mom can still update the family holiday newsletter with your big announcement!

it's not 1972. people dont do this.

tell us how you've been dropped from the annual christmas newsletter that's still going strong in the 2020s

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The absolute best thing about ED is so mom can still update the family holiday newsletter with your big announcement!

I know you're joking, but not necessarily. I actually posted about this here - just being accepted ED doesn't mean one can/will attend, unfortunately.

Oh I’ve seen “Junior will be joining The Tribe next year!!!! #Blessed” etc many many a-newsletter.

I guess finances aren't an issue for everyone.

W&M is in state tuition for many

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The absolute best thing about ED is so mom can still update the family holiday newsletter with your big announcement!

I know you're joking, but not necessarily. I actually posted about this here - just being accepted ED doesn't mean one can/will attend, unfortunately.

Oh I’ve seen “Junior will be joining The Tribe next year!!!! #Blessed” etc many many a-newsletter.

I guess finances aren't an issue for everyone.

W&M is in state tuition for many

This thread isn't limited to W&M.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My oldest had a top school, but we weren't sure how FA would shake out, so she applied RD to that and several others and did very well. At the top tier, ED isn't really a big boost at most schools. It is for some and for many LACs, though. DD did well at T15 in RD but not at LACs.

This year, younger sib will apply ED to same school older sib chose. They have had lts of opportunities to visit and meet students and faculty in field of study, and we know what FA will be there. They also have several EA apps in.

My DC had a very different experience. Did not have an ED top choice, so went with RD. Did well in LAC arena (AWS), but not in T15.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We visited Northwestern in June and there were students sailing and windsurfing. It looked like a scene out of the Bahamas or something. The fact it’s also got a top 10 chemistry program in the world also helped. So our boy EDd and is a current freshman.

Just wait til Winter Quarter!

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Anonymous wrote:So what do you do if your kid has been fed the idea of a "dream school" from every direction?

Talk them out of it. Do everything you can.

My kid's "dream school" was of their own making, and I tried everything to talk them out of out it. Now they've applied EA and will learn of their rejection in a month or so, and it'll be a struggle to get them to choose another school.

Which is why they should continue to write applications through Thanksgiving. It will be very painful if they have to do it over winter break having just been rejected or deferred.

Mine actually found that a motivator. Did really well in RD.

[Anonymous]

Did not do ED.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest had a top school, but we weren't sure how FA would shake out, so she applied RD to that and several others and did very well. At the top tier, ED isn't really a big boost at most schools. It is for some and for many LACs, though. DD did well at T15 in RD but not at LACs.

This year, younger sib will apply ED to same school older sib chose. They have had lts of opportunities to visit and meet students and faculty in field of study, and we know what FA will be there. They also have several EA apps in.

My DC had a very different experience. Did not have an ED top choice, so went with RD. Did well in LAC arena (AWS), but not in T15.

Interesting. Our kids had pretty opposite experiences. Wondering if school connections played a role. Mine came from public magnet, and I suspect LACs may have been hesitant as there are more kids gunning for T15 than top LACs at her school. She did do well at a few LACs but not others. I had chalked it up to not being aware how important ED was to them, but could be wrong.

[Anonymous]

ED is for full-pay rich kids so my kid knew they could not ED anywhere. Easy peasy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The absolute best thing about ED is so mom can still update the family holiday newsletter with your big announcement!

it's not 1972. people dont do this.

Oh, they most certainly do!
DP

[Anonymous]

My DC really wanted to ED to their top choice, but the school stopped doing ED this year. So, so disappointed.

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Anonymous wrote:So what do you do if your kid has been fed the idea of a "dream school" from every direction?

Temper their dreams, particularly if said school is a T25 single digit admit rate.

I have told my son that there is always grad school if it doesn’t work out in undergrad. a lot of these schools have many grade programs as opposed to just the one undergrad admissions

[Anonymous]

How many kids apply ED at multiple schools? We didn't even consider it based on the presentations from the schools. But talking to other people it seems they aren't worried about being penalized.

[Anonymous]

ED to one. EA to a few others