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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, my RD kid did exactly the same as your ED kid.  Got admitted.

DC just did not ED because of the price tag and felt it was less likely to get any merit/scholarhip money if doing ED.  At that time DC was thinking maybe a 'discount' at another school could maybe sway them?  Possibly?
Nah, in the end DC stuck with their first choice, even though it ended up full pay.  
In retrospect, we could have been done probably way earlier and saved a bit in application fees, but oh well.  It all worked out, so we are happy.[/quote]

Mine got in ED and had applications pending at 6 of her 9 schools.  Was working on the last two. She could have waited to hot submit and saved some money, but she felt better knowing they were completely off her plate.  WM was a high match (4.1W GPA, 34 ACT, FCPS, strong upward trend) in the red/green overlap on Naviance.  She went with hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.  Which is good, because if she had been denied or deferred, it would have been tough to shake off the disappointment and do all the essays for 8 other schools before 1/2 or 1/15 (she was in Rolling Decision at Pitt; all her other schools were SLACs w/ no EA). She also had an ED2 school picked, because her strong first two choices were high matches.

An FYI for parents of ED kids deferred and then put on the WL in March or put on the WL in RD— last year WM offered the entire WL spring admission. Which is smart, because many kids study abroad spring of junior year, so some capacity opens up.   They envision this as a seven semester at WM graduation track, and in the fall kids have to either take a FT load of transferable credits at a community college with a certain GPA (maybe 3.0?) or do study away through a specific provider and do a full academic load of transferable credits.  It’s a nice plan B for a kid who really wants WM, has the academic credentials, but just misses in the “holistic review”. [/quote]

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