Where are your kid or his/her friends EDing this year?

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Lehigh (engineering- 3 of DCs friends applying ED), Tufts (2 - both recruited athletes), Univ of Chicago (2), Penn (2)

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Out of state:

UVA; Notre Dame; Dartmouth; Penn; Brown; Wake; Lehigh; Northwestern; Rice

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Chicago

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Anonymous wrote:In Naviance above the scattergrams there are bars that show how many students have applied each year.

Thank you for this! I had no idea of this feature. I'm surprised at the number of applications already submitted. Was I just naive and thought most of the applications would have been submitted closer to 11/1?

This is the question we’re discussing in this thread—is it actually applications submitted or something else related to transcript requests or other counselor work?

I’ve looked at this more closely and found that my kid’s counselor has submitted transcripts and the counselor recommendation to all nine of my kid’s schools; this is viewable in Naviance. My kid has officially submitted two applications, both to EA schools that show multiple applicants for 2024. But when I look at my kid’s other schools, some show 2024 applicants and some don’t. This is what leads me to believe the bar chart is showing actual applicants rather than transcript requests—kid’s transcripts have been sent everywhere, so if the bar chart was reflecting transcript requests or submission, it would show applicants for every school kid is applying to.

But the numbers of applicants for schools with ED (not EA) seem unbelievable. So I’m not sure what to think.

I agree with you. I think it is real applications being submitted.

Maybe the kids are just more on the ball with sending out applications than I thought they would be?

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In my kid private in Dc
Multiple U Penn, Northwestern and Chicago.

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I do not think Naviance reflects applications submitted. I think it reflects transcripts requested. There are very few kids at my kid’s school who apply ED. Only 35% go to a 4 year school and it’s mainly in state and then there are some each year who go out of state/to elite schools. But Brown shows something like 8 applications on Naviance, Wake Forest 6. Etc. There is no way that those kids all applied ED this year. Maybe 1 or 2 at most. So I think these are mainly RD applicants.

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Duke and Yale are popular for this class. Don't know why.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke and Yale are popular for this class. Don't know why.

Probably has something to do with the fact that they’re Duke and Yale.

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Anonymous wrote:the only one I know about is her one friend she swears already got into UCLA. I think her friend is pulling her leg.

The UC schools don’t have EA or ED, but they might recruit for sports early. My kid had a classmate who was recruited the summer before senior year for her sport.

Not sports, and she claims friend is going to take a gap year, too. Could someone have already gotten an answer from UCLA if they applied as early as possible? I don’t know-we’re in VA and not considering any west coast schools

No…your daughters friend is pulling her leg.

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Anonymous wrote:the only one I know about is her one friend she swears already got into UCLA. I think her friend is pulling her leg.

The UC schools don’t have EA or ED, but they might recruit for sports early. My kid had a classmate who was recruited the summer before senior year for her sport.

Not sports, and she claims friend is going to take a gap year, too. Could someone have already gotten an answer from UCLA if they applied as early as possible? I don’t know-we’re in VA and not considering any west coast schools

No…your daughters friend is pulling her leg.

Not surprised. Either my daughter is wrong on the school (entirely possible) or this friend that I don’t know very well is a liar (she’s always been pretty unreliable with plans and has mental health issues that she has been in treatment facilities for)

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I know a number of Duke EDs; most are legacy.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not think Naviance reflects applications submitted. I think it reflects transcripts requested. There are very few kids at my kid’s school who apply ED. Only 35% go to a 4 year school and it’s mainly in state and then there are some each year who go out of state/to elite schools. But Brown shows something like 8 applications on Naviance, Wake Forest 6. Etc. There is no way that those kids all applied ED this year. Maybe 1 or 2 at most. So I think these are mainly RD applicants.

OK. I’ve been looking at this way too much, and I think I agree that it’s transcript requests or submissions. Initially I thought it couldn’t be that because one of the schools where my kid’s transcript had been requested and submitted wasn’t showing any 2024 applicants, but today it’s showing five (all week it was showing none), which I believe is the minimum number required before any data show. I know the counselors have been working this week on getting things submitted for Nov 1; I assume that yesterday they processed a fifth request, so today it’s showing five. They are processing all requests at once for students, not just the schools with Nov 1 deadlines, which is why the numbers are so high.

I’m now officially done reading these tea leaves.

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vandy and duke extremely popular according to my DC in her extensive friend group - seemingly outpacing lower tier ivies like Cornell -

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from FA, why would anyone not apply to their reach ED? Seems like chance of acceptance is much higher, so maybe the best way to approach a reach. Are college counselors not promoting this? (DC is a sophomore so I am not dealing with them much yet). Thanks

DS's top choice only has EA, that's why.

Same. It doesn't allow us to apply to any other private universities EA or ED. And only EA to public universities.

So he has two EAs with 11/1 deadlines and the rest are RD.

Is this typical? DS's school doesn't have any such restrictions.

Princeton, Harvard, Yale: yes. They have REA. Restrictive early action

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from FA, why would anyone not apply to their reach ED? Seems like chance of acceptance is much higher, so maybe the best way to approach a reach. Are college counselors not promoting this? (DC is a sophomore so I am not dealing with them much yet). Thanks

DS's top choice only has EA, that's why.

Same. It doesn't allow us to apply to any other private universities EA or ED. And only EA to public universities.

So he has two EAs with 11/1 deadlines and the rest are RD.

Is this typical? DS's school doesn't have any such restrictions.

PP is likely referring to a scea or rea type of ea app. It's not the high school that restricts, it's the college's special ea requirements (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown)

Yes.