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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED is also a strategy employed by people who can pay full freight who have children who don’t have the stats for EA or RD. Most of the kids we know that got in ED have far less rigorous course loads and far less impressive stats than those who got in or were referred from EA. we saw this with schools like Tulane, Fairfield, Wake Forest, and Miami.[/quote]
Or people just want it all to be over and their kid really likes one school and then it works out. You sounds very judgy.[/quote]

Yeah, mine loved the school. She also had top stats and pretty amazing ECs in both arts and sciences and awards. We are a FA family and knew we would be able to afgord the school from NPC. Actual aid package was better than NPC. Kid is thrilled to be done.[/quote]

That’s who ED was created for. The school wins by getting a guaranteed ass in the seat. The student wins by being done early with a guaranteed admit to their first choice.

What “ruined” ED is people figured they could get in with a poorer application because the admit rate was higher.

A lot of what’s driving the admissions frenzy is everyone deciding to shoot their shot at every lottery school instead of just taking a step back and thinking about a solid chance for admission for a good match school.

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Was any of this a surprise? Whatever the original motivations, it is pretty clear the outcome is kind of crazy right now. Not that anyone of us has any power over the system, but..[/quote]

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