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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish they actually reviewed all the applications early like EA is supposed to do. Instead, EA is used primarily for recruited athletes and legacy (which the interim head has reinstated).

They also make you manually enter grades on the common app rather than just send a transcript so they can pre-screen applications for EA by computer.  They'll only have time to review appications with stats that qualify for top merit aid. Those are the only ones that get read for potential EA acceptance, along with athlete recruits and legacies.

The rest just get marked as "deferrals" and moved unread to RD.

So unless your student has 3.9+ unweighted GPA plus 1500+ SAT/34+ ACT, they will get moved to deferral unread and be part of the RD round.

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Exactly.

They use EA essentially only for athlete recruits + they use AI to pull out the students with top numbers and only bring only them to committee for discussion. So the EA admits end up being a hodge podge of lower stats/recruited athletes and extremely high stats/merit students.

The rest are not read or reviewed at all and moved without any attention paid to RD round. So it's not really a true deferral since they aren't reviewed in EA round. That's why there is no rejections. Nothing that isn't a recruited athlete with full coach support, or tippy top stats, is even vetted.[/quote]

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