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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED is for colleges, recruited athletes, and suckers. Be sure you know which of the three categories your kid will fall into before you spend too much time obsessing about that part of the process.[/quote]Disagree, at least with respect to top slacs, u Chicago, northwestern, Vanderbilt, Emory, tufts. About half the class at dc’s private make good use of ed, I’ve seen many great outcomes for unhooked kids. ED/SCEA to Ivies, not so much— better to just go RD if unhooked and aiming there.[/quote]UChicago is the only school on your list (including whatever you're including in "top slacs") where a non-athlete admitted ED wouldn't very likely have been admitted to at least one equally or more selective school in RD. For kids/families who primarily are trying to maximize "prestige," applying ED to Emory or Tufts or wherever is just dumb--either they'll dinged (if they're not actually credible at that level) or they very likely could have done better.[/quote]Emory and Tufts are not the same level, and for ED only Columbia, Duke, JHU, NW, Brown , and maybe Dartmouth are better than Emory for ED. That's why Emory has ED2. The ones that apply Ed1 know they cant get into those. [/quote]You've totally missed the point.[/quote]

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