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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So next year's strategy for highest stat STEM applicants:

EA to MIT, Wash U., Georgia Tech[/quote]

Can you do this and also SCEA to HYP or ED a T20?[/quote]

If you SCEA/REA to an HYP, you could still EA to Michigan and Georgia Tech since they are public, but not MIT, WashU, USC, and Case. If you ED to a t20, then you could EA to anything as long as it's not an SCEA/REA school.[/quote]
You can also skip ED/SCEA entirely and apply EA to: MIT, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Wash U, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UVA, UNC, USC, Wisconsin, Georgia, Case, and Tulane. Yes?[/quote]

Yes, you can do this, but EA does not give your child any real advantage since it's non-binding and a fair number of these schools care about yield and may defer your kid. [/quote]

EA is non-binding, but an EA acceptance gives the kid a nice floor.  EA acceptance means kid can whittle down RD list to only reaches.  For a place like Wash U, that could increase early interest.

People who might have applied RD to Emory or Vanderbilt might decide to forego those apps if they have an acceptance to Wash U in their pocket, and only apply to high reaches. If rejected from high reaches, kids are not deciding btw Wash U and Emory/Vanderbilt/NW.  They just go to Wash U.[/quote]

Definitely not true. Nobody is picking WashU over Vandy/NU/other higher-ranked schools.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

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