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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will never understand these threads. If they can tell you what W&M will cost at time of application (via calculator, via promise that merit aid will be awarded in the same way), then applying ED is an option.  If given that you still want to take your chances at getting into a better school, or getting an amazing aid package somewhere else, nothing stopping you.  There's the conservative route, take a sure thing but never know what could have been.  There's the riskier route, see what happens during RD, knowing the competition is greater.  This is the same decision everyone makes, regardless of income level.[/quote]

of course you understand these threads -always startled by someone whose kid didn’t get in so they want to bash[/quote]

[b]Ding! We have a winner. Happens every year. Every single year. OP, multiple PPs have explained why your gripes about ED for W&M is not true. I imagine their might be other colleges or universities that use ED and NPC differently and perhaps for those ED creates a challenge, but it's not the case here. 
Your sweeping judgments about the "Virginia university system" are groundless. You--like all the folks that show up annually--believed your kid was entitled to attend W&M or UVA. They are not. It's not some great conspiracy, it's not societal wrong. People apply to college, and sometimes you get in, and sometimes you don't. The state provides MANY amazing high quality options for undergraduate, and your student is blessed with many in states schools that aren't W&M or UVA. We are actually blessed with a fantastic system of in-state college and universities.[/quote][/b]

Agree 100%.  And what no one has said and OP doesn't grasp is that W&M is public with a small Admissions Office . It operates on a shoestring and cannot compete with the AOs at similar private SLACs charing $80K a year.  Even its admissions readers (hired by the hour  to make the first slash through the applications) are paid only $18-$22 a year.  So W&M has decided that its small public AO will offer EDI and EDII and RD.  That's perfectly fine and actually works for low-income applicaants because they can be"one and done" with EDI or EDII and not have to file multiple applications at $100 a pop.  Our SN DC was one and done at another Virginia School.  What a relief!.

Also, if you are so desperate to get into W&M and for some reason don't want to go EDI or EDII,, then apply to UVA and pray to get in and then transfer to W&M (its going to be the same intro classes - I know someone who did this) or, better yet, if finances are a problem to to a NVCC (community college), work hard and transfer to  W&M.  Done!

So stop complaining about whatever your think the lack of EA signifies and apply to a similar $80 SLAC, UVA EA, or another great VA school, or go to community college and tranfer to W&M.  The beautiful thing about VA is that w hae 33 institutions of higher learning to suit all sudents and all budgets.[/quote]

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