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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, this could go either way - and honestly I hate it that college counselors always try to get kids to shoot lower on ED. If you have the grades and scores for a school, go ahead and try if you will actually get a boost from ED/REA/SCEA or regardless if it is your first choice - at Williams or Yale there is no boost from early unless you are initutional priority. (btw, Pomona is just as hard to get into as those schools!) Cornell takes kids RD all the time and goes to their waitlist. Emory, WashU, Chicago, and many others have ED2. I think people should do what they think best and not listen to strangers on the internet who are telling them to take the safe route.[/quote]

+1.ED should be about your "top choice" not about where you think you have the best shot.

My kid listed her 12 schools in order.  One was an obvious ED as well as at that time her top choice.  So she ED there.  Didn't get in, got deferred to RD.  Because of that chose not to ED2 to her 2nd choice.  Mainly because 2nd choice was a Target/Likely Target (kid was at 80%+ for stats and acceptance rates are ~25-30% and kid is from a state 3K miles away (so geography will help) and has ECs that make them a "perfect fit for that school" and was applying for Engineering (so bonus of being a female in engineering).  Thankfully she got into her 2nd choice. [/quote]

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