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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard from my kid that results are so bad this year at our (Big3) school that the college counseling office is now telling kids 
to either take a gap year OR matriculate at a lower tier school and "try again next year".

Have you heard this? It is worrisome or typical advice?[/quote]

I heard that you are making sh*t up.  What schools have released RD decisions? [/quote]

Someone keeps making this point, but a lot of kids apply almost entirely EA. There are many schools where is you look at the scattergrams at NCS, plenty of students apply EA and [b]no one applies RD[/b], and they tend to be lower ranked schools that have become more unpredictable. So while I think results will shake out in March to be better than they are now, many kids have heard from a slew of EA schools and may not be waiting on many if any RD schools.  [/quote]

This isn't true. My DC applied to many schools that only had ED and RD as options and the top school on DC's list only has RD.[/quote]

It isn’t true for you. It is true for others.[/quote]

Of course. PP said No one applies RD. That is what is not true.[/quote]

I was the PP. I meant there were many schools, maybe I should have said certain schools, where no one seems to apply RD, and that’s because NCS (and a lot of schools) puts such an emphasis of getting your apps in in the EA round if you can. And you are right, its probably not literally no one, but if you look at certain big state schools or some less competitive private schools with EA like Fordham, for instance, most students who choose to apply there, apply EA. The overall point again is that there are people who might already be in the position where they have heard from most if not all of their schools already. I was just reacting to people saying the initial post was BS or a troll post simply because RD has not come out yet. It may not be.  [b]And if you got some surprising deferrals[/b], you may be pretty stressed right now event though at the end of the day some of the deferrals are likely to turn into acceptances.[/quote]

but this is where it all falls apart.  Being deferred to RD is not the same as being rejected.  From what I have seen in the DMV among private school kids AND among those from schools in high income areas and known for great academics - the kids who got in ED mostly had hooks.  A few swung really low ang got into a true safety.  Sure, it's true that many (even swinging low) are getting deferred....and those trying early for target/reach were often rejected.  But there is still RD to come - and that includes the DEFERS.[/quote]

Read the whole sentence that you bolded. I say the very same thing. Nothing falls apart. Someone might be very stressed right now even though RD has not come out yet. Someone earlier kept claiming the whole original post was a lie. More than one thing can be true. [/quote]

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