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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please share your experience with EA vs Ed vs RD, and if there were any regrets.
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This is not a discussion about financial aid (though that can play a role), full pay, or test scores, please. [/b]

Just a discussion whether you think you should've or not have done EA or ED and waited to do RD.[/quote]

But all these things - whether to do EA, ED, RD, SCEA/REA - are intertwined with FA/merit/stats...etc. Talking about without the other, you lose context. [/quote]

Yes, this. My DC applied to 6 schools EA and was accepted to all of them, with significant merit aid offers from 5. But these schools were chosen in large part because we knew DC was a strong candidate not just for admission but for merit aid, which we need in order to afford a SLAC, which DC wants. So the EA process worked out fantastically for DC, in part because 5 of the 6 decisions were received before the RD deadlines of the other (state) schools DC was intending to apply to if the merit aid quest didn't work out (so DC didn't need to finish those RD applications). But the outcome might have been very different if we could easily have been full-pay anywhere, because then DC likely would have applied to several "reaches" instead of all safeties/matches.[/quote]

Forgot to add: If you do want merit aid, the consensus advice seems to be that much of the aid is given out in the EA round, so waiting to apply RD could be a mistake (if EA is offered). [/quote]

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