What Colleges Extending Application Due Date? (Lower apps?)

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They are looking for certain demographics.

Nah, top school are already getting a decent cross section of students. PP's noting low admit rate are correct. That and high % of full pay students are goals.

They want more full pay but are offering fee waivers? You clearly have no clue what you are talking about, or what institutional priorities truly are. The tip top schools are desperate to maintain diversity.

Agree that they are not looking for "more full pay". AT ALL.
The ED/SCEA deferrals and denials are actually up this year from several local, top privates. Lots of kids denied outright with high 1550+, 3.9+, full pay (plus likely will donate further) who were denied left and right this year. And they're coming from high schools that in recent years have actually produced valedictorians at these colleges. So kids from their high schools are routinely killing it once at the colleges, paying full freight and the colleges are saying "no thanks, let's shake the tree for more applicants."

It is crazy practice.

Agree with this completely. My valedictorian DC with highest rigor, 1570, NMSQT, and international awards was rejected by Yale SCEA and we are full pay. I see that Yale is extending the deadline for everyone and I have no idea why my kid wasn't deferred.

Did your kid not really focus on that special Yale sauce ("and")? I mean, they look for it in the essays.
Remember that TJ kid from the podcast where they crucified him/her bc the kid clearly didn't get what was special about Yale.

All of these schools - with several hard essays - are looking to see that you've done the research, really and truly, to see how you "fit" them - and we aren't talking social fit. It's academic and community fit. Each application has a different feel. A Yale application would look 180 degrees different form a Cornell or Penn application for the SAME kid. If you don't get that, do your research.

Agree +100. DC poured everything into the SCEA app and was accepted. It was very compelling. I just can't imagine that she could do the same for 10+ more schools in RD. So lucky and fortunate to be done early.

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Anonymous wrote:It's idiotic though. Ivies are rejecting students who did everything right in high school, come with $95K in cash hand, and come from high schools that routinely produce the eventual valedictorians AT THE IVY. So the colleges know these kids are extraordinarily well-prepared, will rock the studies, will become the Ivy grads who go on to be successful in noteworthy ways... BUT no. They reject them.

All in favor of candidates that have yet to even apply. I get it if they are rejecting them for better (more diverse, whatever) candidates that they have in-hand. But rejecting these kids and then saying "please, please, please apply--we will make it free and we will extend our deadlines" just makes zero sense.

It's like enrollment management has gone off the deep end of crazy.

That is not how it works though. Yale defers a decent percentage of applicants and combined with admits, this means the rejected students were not in the top 30% or so of the very competitive SCEA pool.

Every super selective school states that they look past just stats. Also full pay does not move the needle at the most competitive schools, at least not without sizable donations.

“Students who did everything right” don’t
necessarily make the most compelling applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they are doing it t maintain their low acceptance rates. I have a senior in ED. After going thru the process, I find it total bull$hit. I have seen first hand, how admissions reps play stupid games.

This. No senior this year but I know a bunch who were denied or deferred from these Ivies and the kids have perfect stats. So the colleges didn't want these kids but have to go fishing for more?

The Ivies and other similarly competitive schools look way past stats. Most applicants with perfect stats get denied.

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When I said "did everything right" I'm talking way beyond just grades and test scores. they're lovely kids, interesting, leaders, genuine, kind, charismatic, all of it.

Not my kids but mind blowing how they could be passed on for those yet to even apply.

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These schools do the same thing every year - they know that even more compelling applicants will be applying in RD. Not sure how it could be “mind blowing” when every minutiae of the admissions process is studied and analyzed by these schools - decisions are not being made on a whim.

They can only accept and defer so many from the early round.

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Just got an email that Syracuse will continue accepting applications on a space available basis.

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Anonymous wrote:When I said "did everything right" I'm talking way beyond just grades and test scores. they're lovely kids, interesting, leaders, genuine, kind, charismatic, all of it.

Not my kids but mind blowing how they could be passed on for those yet to even apply.

There are too many of them, too common. Top colleges look for scarcity—someone unusual. Someone who is intentional. To these standout kids, common app is an afterthought.

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Just received an email from Georgetown encouraging kid to apply. They mentioned there is still room as they didn't fill the class in EA. How much of this is true?

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email that Syracuse will continue accepting applications on a space available basis.

I am on that mailing list

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an email from Georgetown encouraging kid to apply. They mentioned there is still room as they didn't fill the class in EA. How much of this is true?

Georgetown has always said (and it’s true) applying EA confers no advantage. They take the same # RD. They defer everyone EA, no rejections. We wasted an EA there.

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an email from Georgetown encouraging kid to apply. They mentioned there is still room as they didn't fill the class in EA. How much of this is true?

Georgetown has always said (and it’s true) applying EA confers no advantage. They take the same # RD. They defer everyone EA, no rejections. We wasted an EA there.

Georgetown defers everyone, then takes 10% from the deferrals.
EA kids take a double dip. 10% in EA, then 10% in RD.
Accumulatively they take 20% from the EA applicants.
Double the acceptance rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an email from Georgetown encouraging kid to apply. They mentioned there is still room as they didn't fill the class in EA. How much of this is true?

Of course there is still room. EA only fills half of the class. RD fills the other half.

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Anonymous wrote:I asked the robots (ChatGPT) if there are more extensions this year. It said more colleges are extending deadlines.

“Overall, more colleges and universities appear to be extending or shifting traditional deadlines this year compared with last year, especially for decision-making and enrollment/commitment timelines rather than the raw application submission dates”

Hmm. Told me the opposite. Also, said the Yale extension was hyperbole. They couldn’t find anything official- but some people on Reddit had screen shots. It appears you had to already had to have Yale in common app as well.

I know a few Ivies let in fewer in ED/EA and rejected more than usual, but these Ivies did not offer extensions.

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an email from Georgetown encouraging kid to apply. They mentioned there is still room as they didn't fill the class in EA. How much of this is true?

Georgetown has always said (and it’s true) applying EA confers no advantage. They take the same # RD. They defer everyone EA, no rejections. We wasted an EA there.

Ok but have they sent an email like that before?

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email that Syracuse will continue accepting applications on a space available basis.

So rolling admissions?