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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PP's son was being smart, not selfish.  It's all about strategy.[/quote]

What strategy?  Where?  Unless he'd prefer all 7 of the remaining schools to the one he already got into EA, there's no strategy to keeping applications at all 7 schools. Most probably, he'd prefer a few of the 7 to the one that accepted him EA, but he'd turn down the rest even if they accept him. For example, if he already got into Yale EA, then he may figure he'll go to Harvard if they accept him, but he'll turn down Cornell if they accept him. (Don't get me wrong, I love Cornell, half of my family went there, but I need an example.)  So why not withdraw from Cornell, so that Cornell can accept another kid from his school or somewhere else in the country? Instead, some kid on Cornell's waitlist has to wait until May or June until this PP's kid relinquishes his slot and Cornell goes to the waitlist.

Unless he's applying for FA, there's no strategy involving comparing offers. (And no merit aid at the Ivies, either.)

The only conceivable strategy is that the family has calculated that withdrawing applications is too much bother, besides it would be fun to see how many Ivies he can get into.

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This is not the way the process works.  Colleges overaccept based on yield numbers and they have this down to a science.  A student holding an EA spot on which the student hasn't decided is not "taking a spot" from somebody else.[/quote]

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