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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the info OP.  I have a question. I am an alum of a top 20.  DS’s meet their 25th percentile.  We had ruled the school out, but we are starting to think he should apply ED and take a chance.  We are full pay.  WWYD?  I’m only hesitating because if he fails to get in, he will have wasted his ED/full pay opportunity?[/quote]

This is OP. If you were not a legacy, my answer would be no, don’t waste your ED choice. With legacy, it is slightly more complicated. Look up ED stats for your school. Legacy matters more at some schools than other. It doesn’t help you much at Columbia but it is a huge boost at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Penn and Princeton. Legacy will not help you at MIT. In general my sense is that the bottom 25% is mostly used for recruited athletes, URM, low income and first gen kids. If you are white or asian and from standard educated middle or upper middle class family, then being in the lowest 25% for grades and test scores will most likely not work for you. I hope this helps. [/quote]

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