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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD just finished tonight.  She applied to 20 and was going to add another one but we told her to Stop!  The deferral makes them doubt themselves and they over compensate by over applying.  It is so terribly stressful for these kids.  Purely anecdotal but many high stats unhooked kids were shut out of ED/EA.  The kids who got in had lower stats but were multi-legacy, money, or sports.  This really pushes the rejects to apply to many more schools.  ED2 and RD will be interesting.

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Yes.

The "hooked" thing makes everything weird and unpredictable at the top schools. A mediocre athlete who could never play serious D1, inherited wealth, the color of someone's skin, where the parents went to college, a prominent name - it's very annoying that these things matter. But they do.

And so the smart kids are scrambling. There aren't a lot of spots for them at Harvard or Yale.

And so they shotgun after an ED rejection or deferral. Which, of course, reduces the RD acceptance rates even further at most competitive schools.

Very stressful for bright, ambitious kids who weren't born with a "hook."[/quote]

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