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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was the person with the "profoundly bad advice" (that made me laugh). If you can afford to ED a super top school and it's your kid's favorite, of course do that! I am reacting to what seems like increasingly popular but bad advice to ED to a mid-range school that your kid might okay/sorta be happy at, just to have one in the books. That's the impression I get from some posts on here lately... Maybe I'm wrong. Hopefully not profoundly wrong again, though. haha. I'm actually curious about this - please explain?[/quote]

LOL.  I can be a little dramatic.  I agree, you don't want to do ED when you aren't 100% comfortable with a positive outcome.  And I think that is where people get nervous about focusing more on a target type school than a reach.  So it really comes down to thinking it through in advance.  ED1 and ED2 is nice though because if your dream doesn't come true ED1, there is information in that.  For example, in this context, if she applied to Williams ED1 and got rejected, maybe there would be more comfort applying to something less competitive for ED2 as opposed to just applying to a school that is equally competitive.  Only apply ED when you will be really satisfied with the positive result, even knowing that maybe maybe you could have gotten into Harvard or Williams or whatever RD and now you will never know.  Unfortunately, the benefit of a realistic ED application - a higher chance of things working out- comes at the cost of foreclosing possibly better outcomes.  But because it is so hard to get in places RD (and don't forget all those rejected Ivy Leaguers, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton etc. swooping down into LAC world) it is a compromise often worth making.  It's your best shot of getting in somewhere good for your profile.[/quote]

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