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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blah, blah, blah from the rich person trying to justify her privilege. ED needs to go because of the privilege it affords rich people (the ED admits are definitely lower quality admits). It also shows desperation on the part of the schools. Which is why truly elite schools like Harvard Princeton, Yale, mit, Caltech, Stanford don’t do it.

All of which is irrelevant to OP’s assertion. Her kid is anxious and it sounds like she is, too. None of that is the result of ED.[/quote]

Many top schools are/may be going back to ED because enrollment has dropped and they want to lock-in new student enrollment.[/quote]

It's a win for the schools as well.  Ultimately, they are a business. Their goal is to put X seats (with out going over by too much, and definately not going under) in the freshman class that matriculates in Aug/Sept.  They want the best variety/best class possible by their definitions.  Accepting 50%+ from ED1/ED2 makes RD and yield management much easier to achieve.

Harvard deferrs 75-80% of their Early admissions (whatever the hell it's called).  That makes yield management extremely easy.  Would love to see stats on how many accepted in RD were from the "deferred group"---because you can just about guarantee a 90-95% matriculation rate from that group
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So Harvard accepted 772 for class of 2027 in EA (whatever it's called) of 9553.  7450 were deferred.

They accepted a total of 1220 students in RD.  Historically about 10% of those deferred in ED gain admission in RD.  So that is 745 students, leaving about 475 from new RD applications.  Given normal stats, they are wanting a total of 1400-1500 freshman.  Easy to see how they met their yield expectations--most come from EA deferrals who are almost guaranteed to attend (I'm sure Harvard knows exact numbers).

All schools do this

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