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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m confused. Is Michigan eliminating EA?

If not, why would they be in any worse of a position with the high-stat kids?

I’ll use my DS as an example. He’s super high stats/rigor. His first choice is a private T10 and his second choice is Michigan. So he’s planning to ED at the private T10 and EA at Michigan (OOS).

If he gets in to the ED, he’ll pull the Michigan app. If he doesn’t, he’ll submit his other applications, and then decide among his admit in April.

How does Michigan’s decision to add ED make it more likely they’ll lose kids like my DS? He’s going to do exactly what he would have done if there was no ED, and they still have the same opportunity to accept/enroll him as they otherwise would have.

To me, this is actually an OPPORTUNITY for Michigan to snag more high status OOS kids in a more efficient way.

If Michigan were DS’s first choice, he’d be 100% thrill to apply ED - both to have the chance to lock it in by December (no no need to submit all the other applications) and more importantly because he’d want to show/prove to Michigan that they are indeed his first choice, not a back-up plan in case he doesn’t get into 5-10 other schools (which is a reasonable assumption to make given his stats.)[/quote]

Mom of high stat/high rigor kid here in a neighboring state. My kid's plan was to EA to a few schools, including his first choice, Michigan. He could never ED Michigan as we need to see the final COA before committing. (The NPC, as I mentioned upthread, indicates we would probably receive a small grant to offset some of the tuition if accepted. 80k/year definitely not in our budget.) He received the email about ED today and says he will switch gears and do what your kid is doing: ED to a private that is need blind and meets 100 percent demonstrated need. Definitely not his first choice because it's a little closer to home and he'd prefer to be a few hours away.

For our family, it seems that Michigan will likely be off the table for him and that the priority will be wealthy OOS kids in ED and fewer seats left for barely-MC families like ours in EA.  But I get why they'd do this. Better to lock in the high stat OOS and IS kids whose first choice is Michigan.

Also the kids who are gunning for Ivies and using Michigan as a back up likely won't ED to Michigan and then EA kids will also be competing with those kids. Thinking about the student at his school this year who swept all the top Ivies plus Stanford, was also admitted to UMich, which appeared to be their safety. This kid likely did REA to an Ivy, RD to the others, EA to Michigan.
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What are you talking about? [b]If Michigan does not give you the $ on the NPC in an ED admit, it is totally non-binding…[/quote]
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Not seeing that anywhere in the ED announcement? If you do, please share.

Some top private institutions are very clear that if the final cost of attendance doesn't work for an ED kid, that kid is not obligated to attend. No one expects this from an OOS public university. But, sure, we can throw in an EA application to Michigan and see if the NPC matches the reality.[/quote]

Kids are never obligated to attend a ED school if the finances don’t work out but you can bet their school will be blacklisted in the future. School counselors really work to prevent this because it puts future students in a terrible situation.[/quote]
No, if finances don’t work out, that is, if the school does not give what it says it will give on the NPC, no problem and no blacklist whatsoever. It is the school’s fault if they can’t deliver on the NPC (which informs a decision to apply ED in the first place) — not the student’s. Of course, you can’t half ass the NPC and leave stuff out…

The blacklist you are talking about is when a kid is admitted ED and just wants out, for no financial reason — and the school can’t do much about it because ED is not actual contractual. Then, and only then, will there conceivably be a blacklist.[/quote]

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