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[quote=Anonymous]There are a number of schools that are non-binding early action, so applying to one or two of those that your child is likely to be admitted to (and hopefully that are reasonably good schools where you child would be happy) helps take the pressure off. Depending on the kid, some of these that are popular locally seem to be Michigan, Vermont, Colorado College, U Chicago.  Kid finds out about these before or coincident with their single ED school, if they have applied to one, so even if rejected or deferred from the ED school, they don't have to wait to know they got in somewhere, all the way to spring.  
Impression I have gotten from DD who went through this two years ago, and current senior DS is that for the top SLACs, applying ED is probably most important, since they are small, and a huge % of class is taken by athletic recruits who must apply ED, and then others that apply ED. And they are hyper competitive about the stupid USNews rankings, which thus mean they don't want to admit kids they aren't sure will come.  So results in some weird decisions, i.e. DD getting into several within the HYPS group, but wait listed at relatively less academically competitive SLAC that she applied to regular decision. 
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