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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is very helpful! My kid is a rising Senior with borderline stats (4.2 W GPA, 1510 SAT) So Looks like ED is his best chance to get into decently competitive schools? We will be full pay - and [b]I guess ED is a signal to the college that they could count on us to pay full price and hence make it easier to get admit?[/b][/quote] Almost all top50 schools are need blind, which means they don't taken into account your ability to pay into their admissions decisions. I have a relative who is a financial aid director at a top20 school and he/she has clarified that when the institution says it is "need blind" it is 100% need blind. He/she is truly given a list of the students to whom offers are extended and he/she calculates the packages (or lack thereof) on them. As such, his/her aid budget will vary by many millions each year. So full pay does not matter at the need blind schools (which is almost all the top30 schools). Being a potential "donor" is another class. [b]If the school thinks that you may end up coming with a large check--well then your kid may land in a separate category.[/b] Closely intertwined with being a donor is being a VIP or noteworthy parent. Schools of course also like this. They want the influential and powerful within their fold. For the rest of us, colleges like ED because yield (the percentage of admits that end up matriculating) is very important to them. ED kids almost all matriculate. [/quote] Was speculating about the bolded in another thread. Absent a connection to a person at the university, how many schools have their development office run the applicant list through a donor search website to see if any come from potential big donor families? An AO might, or might not, know if this is the practice at their school. An admissions director would know. But, not a lot of talk about this, except in that thread about the lawsuit, perhaps because it affects only a small number of applicants.[/quote] Feels like there are missing pieces to the admission process, beyond the subjectivity of evaluating factors like ECs and essays, that elude the general public. These hidden pieces lead to the uncertainty that ultimately drives the entire admissions consulting industry, so no one in the industry really wants them revealed. Missing pieces that systematically impact decisions. This is just one example. Feels like there is a market for algorithm-based consulting to provide more certainty in helping to make the list. However, my guess is that enrollment management consultants probably sign some sort of contract preventing them from using proprietary info, an anti-compete clause or similar. Sorry, too much coffee this morning.[/quote] Impossible because each school is looking for a different pool of kids. They're filling rosters, majors, institutional priorities-- and all of these vary by college. Plus of course 25% of their student body turns over each and every year. So an institution's needs/wants this year may be vastly different from their needs next year. They never reach steady state. [/quote]
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