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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid should only apply to a school ED that they are 100% sure it is their top choice.[/quote]

I know this is a popular opinion, but it is not the strategy we followed this year for DC22. DC had no clear top choice but really liked a couple of schools that offered ED and one that didn't.

This is what we weighed: the risk that DC would regret not applying to their top choice school (Stanford) VS the risk that DC would regret not playing his ED card at another school he liked with a more reasonable chance of getting in. When presented with that choice, DC thought the latter was a bigger risk and EDd to Northwestern. Accepted.  Sure there was some regret that he'll never know if he would have gotten into Stanford, but there was mostly elation at getting into a top school that he loved when the numbers were so so bad. He probably would have been rejected from both in RD.[/quote]

Stanford and Northwestern are not really that different---both are T10 schools.  your kid didn't really step down a level to ED. [/quote]

We studied the numbers very carefully, both those numbers published by the schools and the numbers from our kid’s high school. The difference was pretty significant. The odds were still against him with Stanford, but we calculated much better odds at northwestern. I don’t mean to suggest that it’s the same for everyone, but it’s what worked for us. [/quote]

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