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[quote=Anonymous]Truly^^.  But OP posits a great question.  We toured two weeks ago.  VT (whatever), engineering, is DC's first choice.  Engineering is the most difficult school to get into, and yes, you must list one of the other colleges as your second choice and it CANNOT now be one of the top four: Engineering, Architechture, Interior Design and something else which I can't remember.  You have to make your selection from the other four or five. 10:22s advice to mark "Undecided" is correct, if you are set on engineering, but I don't know how difficult it is later to transfer from Undecided into Engineering - that's something we have yet to explore.  Yes, it is binding and therefore extremely attractive to us because we did EA for first child for a VA university and it saved us thousands of visitation hours, December and January hours in doing multiple applications and the fees.  But DC only wants engineering, so, I, too, am somewhat baffled.  The presenter did discourage ED because he said that only 1/8 of the ED engineering apps. are accepted - the rest are set aside as deferred because VT wants to see "more" from the applicant such as fall grades, better test scores.  And the others outright rejected.  Also he made the point that the FAFSA doesn't go in until later.  However, as a stressed-out parent, the attractiveness of the  EA and ED options outweigh what this presenter said.  I really want to be done with the whole mess!  So I have the same question - your kid only wants VA Tech Engineering.  He gets into the second option.  Let's say it is undecided.  DC is unhappy and wants now to go to GA Tech.  What do you do?[/quote]

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