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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A family friend in CA whose DD went through the process last year is an example of what not to do.

DD was 4.0 UW GPA, 1590 SAT, 10+ APs, and Asian, full pay, Duke and Michigan legacy.

DD applied ED to Brown because that was her dream school and was denied.

However, if it had been my own DC, I would have pushed for Duke in ED and be done with it, as that would have been the best strategic use of the ED.  Brown was a reach for her.

She was admitted in RD to WashU, Amherst, Georgetown, Duke, Michigan, UNC, Carleton and went to one of these schools on a full-ride merit scholarship, so I don't feel bad for her outcome. But the process was very stressful for a few months.  
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Disagree. I agree with the earlier poster that you should do ED only if you have a clear first choice. Sounds like she had enough stats for Brown to buy a lottery ticket and see what happens. Brown is a reach for everyone but I wouldn’t push my kid to apply ED to Duke if Brown was their dream school and they had a shot, especially because are very different schools.  [/quote]

Brown is a reach for literally everyone. If it’s a reach for 4.0 UW and 1590 SAT, then who has it has a target?  And I think using someone who got to chose among WashU, Amherst, Georgetown, Duke, Michigan, UNC, Carleton is not exactly a cautionary tale that sends people running for the hills.  Not getting into your sole “Dream School” is nothing to cry over when you 5 top 30 universities and 2 top SLACs to choose among.

The real tragedy would be someone who blew their ED on a Ivies and had made the likes of CMU, UChicago, Hopkins, Notre Dame, Rice, Cal/Michigan/UNC/UVA/W&M their targets and and get shut out RD too. Basically, every kid in the top 10 of their HS class needs to find at least 3 or 4 colleges in the 50-150 range in the rankings that they’d be very happy to go to.  Everything above that is a reach, not a target, for the vast majority.[/quote]

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