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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are able financially to ED, please don’t be like us and think “naaaah I’m just gonna see where all DC gets in and make a decision then.”  Pick a reasonable target (maybe a low reach) where your kid would be happy and ED there. Because what’s left over in April when you’ll have all your options is … the next tier down.

People told us don’t do it, don’t pass on the chance to ED. We thought naaaahhh that doesn’t apply to DS. He has high stats and doesn’t have a clear favorite. DS does have choices, but not ones as good as he could have had if he had picked in November and EDd. There just aren’t many spots left for RD after the top colleges have filled up with ED. [/quote]

Thanks for your post. To sum it up, you have to be financially loaded and unconcerned about aid and your kid will have the best shot in college application selection.  [/quote]

We're not loaded. If the numbers don't work, they'll go elsewhere. [/quote]

We're not loaded, just middle class (100k HHI in NoVA, family of 4) and the Net Price Calculator for our ED1 school was accurate and so we knew that it would be affordable with financial aid.  Our kid had a list of schools, we looked up the NPC for each, and we also looked at potential merit aid offers at each school (most schools list the possibilities and how many are offered and we knew our kids rough standing vs their usual applicants etc) and made a financially informed decision that DS would prefer to go to his top choice-- and we could afford what the NPC told us--over going to the schools that might have offered more merit.  In the end, DS also got some merit at his ED1 school which meant he took out less in loans.[/quote]

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