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[quote=Anonymous]One quirk of the US system (and maybe it will have changed in six years -- I hope so!) is that students who apply as early applicants (early action, early decision (binding), or restrictive/single choice early action (can only do it for only one private University in the US, but may do regular decision elsewhere)) often have MUCH better odds of getting in than those who apply "regular decision" (usually a January deadline). So it really helps to figure out where your DC most wants to go to college by October of senior year and to have at least the first round of applications ready to send out then. Which tends to mean that essays get drafted in August before school starts and that all standardized testing has been done once by the end of junior year. There will be a chance to retake prior to early decision, but probably only one type of test. And, to use the early benefit wisely, DC needs to have a sense of what those scores look like. [/quote]
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