What is the perfect number of college apps to submit?

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Anonymous wrote:EA at the school where DC is planning on using it is restrictive -- DC can't apply EA (or ED) to any other private college/university in the U.S.; but DC can apply to a U.S. public U system or to schools in other countries.

I appreciate the fact that DC can do both a public and a private early. More information earlier = more options and better decision-making IMO. But it only works that way if the public system the DC is interested in has rolling admissions or EA. And the DC has to have apps ready to go in case both schools say no (or ask again later --Magic 8 ball reference is intentional!)

Your plan makes good sense and sound advice, and a plan I think we will use. The other apps ready to go are money in the bank and, hopefully, we won't have to use them.

But many schools give out merit aid early--so applying EA really can make a difference. And a school that limits your ability to do this could be costing you real money.

Might be useful advice for others, but not relevant in our case. Top choices for DC don't do merit aid (at least not at our HHI) and in our circumstances it doesn't make sense to choose a school based on cost.

That's nice, but surely there are some students at your school whose circumstances aren't as comfortable as your family's?

Sorry -- we were talking past each other. The school I was referring to that restricts EA isn't DC's HS -- it is the university where DC is applying EA.

Ah. Strictly speaking, that's not EA. That's ED (binding) or SCEA (not binding).

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In our case, the school that our DC wanted to go to and was the best fit for DC's end career goal was an in-state college.

It also happened to be an extremely easy safety for DC, because of DC's stellar stats. So, DC applied to that one college for EA and got in.

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Anonymous wrote:EA at the school where DC is planning on using it is restrictive -- DC can't apply EA (or ED) to any other private college/university in the U.S.; but DC can apply to a U.S. public U system or to schools in other countries.

I appreciate the fact that DC can do both a public and a private early. More information earlier = more options and better decision-making IMO. But it only works that way if the public system the DC is interested in has rolling admissions or EA. And the DC has to have apps ready to go in case both schools say no (or ask again later --Magic 8 ball reference is intentional!)

Your plan makes good sense and sound advice, and a plan I think we will use. The other apps ready to go are money in the bank and, hopefully, we won't have to use them.

But many schools give out merit aid early--so applying EA really can make a difference. And a school that limits your ability to do this could be costing you real money.

Might be useful advice for others, but not relevant in our case. Top choices for DC don't do merit aid (at least not at our HHI) and in our circumstances it doesn't make sense to choose a school based on cost.

That's nice, but surely there are some students at your school whose circumstances aren't as comfortable as your family's?

Sorry -- we were talking past each other. The school I was referring to that restricts EA isn't DC's HS -- it is the university where DC is applying EA.

Ah. Strictly speaking, that's not EA. That's ED (binding) or SCEA (not binding).

Wasn't familiar with the term SCEA (which, I'm now deducing, must be single-choice EA). The university referred to it as restrictive EA.

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Anonymous wrote:EA at the school where DC is planning on using it is restrictive -- DC can't apply EA (or ED) to any other private college/university in the U.S.; but DC can apply to a U.S. public U system or to schools in other countries.

I appreciate the fact that DC can do both a public and a private early. More information earlier = more options and better decision-making IMO. But it only works that way if the public system the DC is interested in has rolling admissions or EA. And the DC has to have apps ready to go in case both schools say no (or ask again later --Magic 8 ball reference is intentional!)

Your plan makes good sense and sound advice, and a plan I think we will use. The other apps ready to go are money in the bank and, hopefully, we won't have to use them.

But many schools give out merit aid early--so applying EA really can make a difference. And a school that limits your ability to do this could be costing you real money.

Might be useful advice for others, but not relevant in our case. Top choices for DC don't do merit aid (at least not at our HHI) and in our circumstances it doesn't make sense to choose a school based on cost.

That's nice, but surely there are some students at your school whose circumstances aren't as comfortable as your family's?

Sorry -- we were talking past each other. The school I was referring to that restricts EA isn't DC's HS -- it is the university where DC is applying EA.

Ah. Strictly speaking, that's not EA. That's ED (binding) or SCEA (not binding).

Wasn't familiar with the term SCEA (which, I'm now deducing, must be single-choice EA). The university referred to it as restrictive EA.

And next month, the colleges will invent yet another new admission acronym!