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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got in ED1, but it could have gone the other way and we didn't have any kind of ED2 plan. We were going to take a psycho road trip to see as many schools as possible over the holiday break (prior visit opportunities were constrained by Covid.) I was pushing for a more competitive school for ED2, which I now know would have been nuts.

Whatever you do, don't leave it until you hear from the ED1; definitely push your kid to pick an alternative, if only to avoid getting too fixated on one school.[/quote]

Why were you thinking going more competitive for ED2? What was the rationale?

Agree about ED1, then ED2 (or not strategy). One DC had an ED1, ED2 strategy with the second option at more of a high target while the ED1 was at a low to medium reach, which CCO thought was a high probability of admit. Second DC had an ED1 strategy, but would not agree on an ED2, which was interesting as this DC is usually more organized and gaming risks than the other one. This DC also probably a little more self assured as their CCO was saying they would be fine with applications to 30% admits and below. Fortunately both DCs got in ED1. I can't imagine what would have happened if the second DC would have ended up with WLs/rejects due to the CCO's possibly bad advice.[/quote]

PP here - my kid was applying to LACs but not the absolute top ones. His ED1 was a reach by virtue of the fact that it accepts about 15% of all applicants, but his stats were firmly in the middle 50 percentile. He also had a bunch of EA applications including one that he was fairly excited about. He was due to hear on that one a week after the ED1 came out; if he'd gotten in to the EA school but not ED1, I was pushing for rolling the dice on a slightly reachy ED2.

Fwiw we discouraged the idea of a dream school or falling in love with any one place. And kid was accommodating or mostly just sick of the process; he had a few criteria that he cared about (esp weather) but otherwise didn't have intense passions around any one school. He did ED mainly because we knew it was a good tactic for getting ahead of the RD pack at small schools. [/quote]

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