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[quote=Anonymous]This was a very useful and insightful thread about the early decision choices when applying to colleges:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1056543.page

I have a bit of a twist though.

We just received an invitation from a school asking us to visit and encouraging us to apply via early decision. They also talked about the various rates of financial aid available to students who attend the university. It is a school that my child is highly interested in, but not a dream school and to be honest, weighing the odds of acceptance upon the stats to date, it's only a 50/50 shot that we'd get in.

We are currently debating whether to use the early decision for this school or save it for another, more desired school.

The only thing that burns me about this prompt is the distinct possibility of getting rejected. I find this too be highly unethical, and frankly, immoral to encourage people to burn away an early decision, then turn around and reject them because the only thing you are really interested in is piling up application stats to make you look more selective and increase your ranking status.

It's like a popular girl or boy in high school comes up to you in the hallway and tells you should ask her/him to go "steady" (old school term, I know) in a couple of weeks. You mull it over and decide to ask, then she/he says - That's so sweet. Let me think about it. You wait a couple of a weeks, then she/he comes up to you in the hall with another person in her arm - I'm sorry no. You're nice, but I really wanted Biff/Buffy all along. Thanks for playing.

Is an invitation like this a shoe if for acceptance or just a Biff/Buffy game?

Has anyone out there gotten a letter like this, decided to apply early decision and still got rejected?[/quote]

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