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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED should be multischool and organized by a matching algortithm. If this can be done for Questbridge (as I understand it, perhaps wrongly), why not for everyone??[/quote]

I LOVE this idea. It it used for k-12 schools in many cities (including DC) and medical residencies - why not early decision???[/quote]

This is a really dumb idea that doesn’t make it any easier for kids. In fact it makes it harder and it makes it harder for the university to build the class as well. Who is helped by this? I’ve heard this idea 1000 times and it’s never good and no one ever has a good justification. [/quote]

What? The justification is that no one is forced to buy a one-or-nothing lottery ticket.  A student can rank by order of their preference, and so can the University and get matched at maybe their second/third/fourth or whatever choice. And can we stop prioritizing the "Build the Class" nonsense? Is that the sole purpose of higher ed? So some Univ can build its class? [/quote]

If it is so dumb, why are med schools doing it? How does every other country in the world manage enrollment into their universities? Our system has gone bonkers. [/quote]

Because medical schools are graduate and pre-professional programs that all teach one thing (for the most part) and are far less concerned with other campus cultural things.

Did you really need that stated?  I am betting you knew that.

And guess what?  It is YOUR idea that is the one-or-nothing choice for the student. In the currnet system, if students get accepted to more than one university, the student gets to choose, and not the university.

Your suggestion is the one that creates the scenario you claim to dislike.[/quote]

Students who are admitted will bring in all of their own interests and talents. They don't need to be "assembled". So, Harvard got one less Oboe player one year because of this. Cry me a river! Does Oxford UK not have an excellent range of student? Did they need to be curated into an assembled group? This is a bunch of AO/Univ nonsense that they have come up with to maintain total control over what they do. Don't drink the Kool-Aid...

Regarding options, let the matching apply to potentially more than one Univ for the ED round..those who don't want to play can go RD. 
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It is up to each school how they want to create their class, not you.  If you look outside the T25 you simply won't have this issue.  You are not entitled to a seat in the T25.  It's okay, your kid will be just fine

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