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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a feel of anti-competitveness to ED.  Sort of a restraint of trade gambit on the part of colleges.   Sure, it helps them fill up their classes and improve their yields, and it helps them achieve revenue goals.

But, from the perspective of over anxious applicants and their parents, I'm not sure the incremental probability of acceptance is equal in value to what the colleges derive from the system.

Here's another drawback.  Suppose your kid applies ED to some supposedly elite school, and learns in December that he didn't make the cut.  Now he's forced to brood about his bad fortune until April 1 to learn his fate.

Not worth it.[/quote]

This argument makes the least sense of all.

If he doesn't apply ED, the student still has to sweat it out until 4/1.  How it is worse to have a chance to cut that short by 4 1/2 months?  ED admit kids have a wonderful, easy December as their peers write essay after essay.  (Not to mention the app fees you save).

And if the student is NOT admitted, he has plenty of time to strategize on a world world without Harvard, and learn to love Colgate, or whatever the result is.

(Plus if he loves Colgate he can go ED2 then because he knows he's out at his first choice lol)

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