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[quote=Anonymous]EA's good to get a leg up on the merit aid. But my three kids all went ED, and I'm so glad. What we did to maximize our advantage, though, was decline to submit an application for financial aid.

That gave us a chance to let our lack of need work in our favor. You want the school to know that you're not going to leech from them. By going ED and forgoing aid, we were telling the school that we had absolutely no problem paying full freight. The school then realized that not only could we pay tuition now, but our kids were likely to be successful and would be donors in the future. We coupled that with each kid taking a high frills "philanthropic" internship abroad, and it was easy even for the Admissions cretins to connect the dots.

I'd say our steps bought each of our kids a 150 or so points on the SAT, and perhaps 3-5 tenths in the GPA. That put them well within range of the admission pool, and thus each wound up knowing in December exactly where they would be attending that fall.[/quote]

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