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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private counselors love steering kids during ED1 to make sure hooked kids get what they want.

For the less fortunate unhooked kids, often they were steered to ED1 Chicago, Tulane, Northeastern.

If these are not your first choice, do NOT ED1 there.  [b]Always ED1 to your first choice, or not ED at all. [/b]

Once you have some safety/target EA acceptance, your private school counselor stops steering, and will allow you RD any school you want because by now all the hooked have gotten in.

RD is the stage when the unhooked get some amazing results![/quote]

What if the first choice is Yale/Brown/Princeton/Stanford, the distant 5th choice is Rice, and your DC’s school has a great track record getting kids into Rice during ED, then what do you do? [/quote]

[b]ED is for first choices, not fifth choices.[/b]  In this situation, go for your top 4 choices in REA/RD.  Unless Brown is actually a first choice, in which case you can ED to Brown.[/quote]

Yup. This is the answer. You do not ED to your “distant fifth choice.”[/quote]

What is the realistic chance that a kid who is a legit candidate to all these schools in the early round ends up getting shut out in RD? For context, the kid has 3.9 GPA 1560, good ECs, great teachers recs, top 10% from a well respected private HS, full pay, unhooked. There will be 2 safeties with 100% acceptance for this candidate based on Naviance but hoping not to go to safeties [/quote]

To be blunt, this is a common profile. Even more so if applicant is a girl. To stand out, very unusual ECs, an unusual level of achievement/impact, or a very rigorous and well known school help..[/quote]

Sorry but a 99th% SAT score is not a "common profile!" Think they mean "not super rare in the DMV" or "not uncommon among applicants to top schools." Geez.[/quote]

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