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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD has high stats (perfect SAT, 4.0 gpa, highest rigor across STEM and Humanities at her high school). She has a few writing awards. She also has an unusual science passion that translated to a prestigious (not pay to play) internship, which might pique the interest of universities. She's been doing an artistic extra curricular since she was little and has measurable third party indicators of progress, and some community involvement relating to it, but nothing flashy or on a large scale, apart from her years of dedication. The atypical scientific spike is probably what sets her apart, because it's not the usual STEM suspects. On the other hand, she's not sure that's what she wants to do all her life, so she would like to hedge and attend a university where she can switch majors.

At that level, how do you decide whether to ED at a school where ED significantly improves one's chances of admission... or gamble on other reaches in the hope that one of them comes through? If she had a preference for one of those ED schools, it would be easy, but she doesn't, and some of these schools lock you into a path.[/quote]

DS said go big or go home.  REA, got deferred which made him questioned his choices, but was glad that the RD turned out much better than expected.[/quote]

+1 my DS was the same, just couldn't get comfortable with binding ED, luckily had a couple of encouraging EA acceptances in Feb (Mich and UVA) the waiting and drip, drip, drip nature of the RD results was hard but ended up with amazing choices and is super happy.  Importantly, this has to be your DC's decision, if they don't really have a 1st choice above all other it comes down to which of two scenarios they think will hardest for them to live with: you make a strategic choice to ED to school where that is a boost you get in but you never know whether you would have gotten into one that deep down you like more or you don't ED and then you only get into schools that you view as sub optimal to the one that you didn't ED to?   They have to picture the two scenarios and make the call.   [/quote]

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