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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED is for schools, athletes, and suckers. Everyone who plays falls into one of those three buckets.[/quote]

Wrong.  ED is for students who have an absolute top choice school and want to show that school that they will attend if accepted.  It benefits the student just as much as the school.  [/quote]

Kids are applying to 10-15 schools , but can only attend ONE when the process is over.

A strategic ED choice for a applicant's #1 option is a smart one. The NPC isn't going to magically change in RD. [/quote]

Exactly.  I have to wonder why the hate for ED.  No one is forced to apply ED, so if you're uncomfortable with it - don't!  The people who ARE ready to commit should absolutely have that option.  Every school should offer ED. [/quote]

No way. ED is another way for schools to favor rich students while securing their class rather than just admitting the best students in a nonbonding way. The best schools don’t have to lower their standards to get students in ED. They do EA. [/quote]

Nope---ED is simply a way for schools to admit students who actually want to attend their school.  Every student can run the NPC and decide if they can "afford" the ED school.

Also, Harvard does REA, then literally defers over 80%, essentially knowing that if they "accept them in RD they are extremely likely to attend".  So they play the yield game their own way. In 2023 that meant they had almost 7K students deferred and they then accept ~10% of those.  Between REA accepted and the 10% of deferred who are accepted in RD, they have over 95% of their freshman class.

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NPC does tell you how much merit aid you will get at different schools.

My daughter applied to a bunch of similarly rated small private liberal arts colleges that all have total cost of attendance ranging from 75k to 90k. The NPC put our costs/aid the same for all of them.

But the reality is that she has gotten merit aid offers that have ranged from 2k to 50k a year. There was no way to know how much those merit offers would be until after she applied and was accepted, which she didn’t know at the ED stage. [/quote]

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