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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Full pay family here.

We won't be doing ED1 because DC's first choice doesn't ED (REA only). If she doesn't get in REA, she will do ED2 to her second choice school. She's high stats and coming from a feeder school, so she will at very least get into her 2nd choice school ED2.

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this is tough because most t20 schools without ED and only SCEA or REA don't provide a bump during EA cycle. So plenty of kids are deferred who end up getting in during RD round. So if you a kid is deferred at ND or GU or Princeton, but naviance is still encouraging .. do you move on with middlebury ED 2 or something?  Not sure I would. I'd just stay the course, apply broadly and hope (and maybe expect) ND/GU to come through. [/quote]

You can't put ND in same category as Georgetown. Georgetown doesn't even deny any applicants in their EA cycle -- either deferred or accepted.  Last year ND accepted 15% of their REA applicants and deferred 19%, meaning the bulk of their applicants were denied. As a deferred student at Georgetown, you have no clue where you stand because they basically keep you and everyone else hanging. It doesn't make sense to even bother with the EA cycle at Georgetown. My kid who is interested in both but prefers ND will not bother applying to Georgetown unless he gets deferred or denied in the REA cycle at ND.
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but why? you can apply REA to both Georgetown and ND. that's a very typical things kids do. REA isn't a big boost at either, they're very clear about that, but there's no downside to applying to both. if you're bypassing other EA and ED options for ND, might as well do GU's too.[/quote]

Also meant to mention that there is a slight edge applying REA to ND, especially if you have good stats. It demonstrates that student isn't applying ED anywhere else and considering ND likes to yield protect, a high stats kid has a slightly stronger chance REA than RD.[/quote]

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