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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed previous poster, particularly since the Mid-Atlantic/DC region is supposedly currently the most competitive area from which to be  applying to colleges, bar none, more competitive even than Silicon Valley or New York metro.  Why make it even tougher on your friends and classmates  when  you have been privileged and lucky enough to be admitted EA into your first choice?[/quote]

+1  I would hope the schools wouldn't send transcripts, etc.  Truly monstrous behavior.....I am appalled. [/quote]i

This was definitely true when my DC applied. Kids got in EA to a HYPS and would not pull applications from top public u, other ivies and SLACs.  It really hurt other kids, especially in a small class. And of course the kids went to the EA acceptance school. Total trophy hunting. It had nothing to do with aid.  The competition here is bad enough. [/quote]

Not always the case.  Two kids in my daughter's class were accepted EA to Harvard and Stanford, respectively.  Both chose to go elsewhere, and not due to financial reasons.  The decision to apply to a certain school early is a complex calculus.  In the cases above, the students had a very short list of schools that fit their objectives and made the decision to apply early to H and S because they represented their best chances (legacy) and not necessarily their "dream".  For them, it was part of a risk mitigation strategy.  Once admitted, they had a floor to move forward.  It may sound odd, [b]but H and S were their safeties[/b].  They were both "rock star" students and earned the right to play the risks / rewards the way that best suited them... and not their classmates.[/quote]

I find this [i]very[/i] difficult to believe.  If we're thinking of the same H and S, they are nobody's safeties. [/quote]

Direct legacy and URM and Presidential Scholar Semi and all-league athlete (but not athletic recruit) and top 5% of class at selective private.  It does happen, because it did.[/quote]

It happens, yes, but still not the same as being "safeties."
Maybe for a Malia Obama or Chelsea Clinton [/quote]

Sorry to dispute you, but you could objectively look at these two kids and assign[b] at least a 50% probability[/b] that they would get in.  Such students do exist.[/quote]

I agree, but that doesn't make it a "safety."  That's just hyperbole.[/quote]

Call it what you like.  You just reinforced my fundamental point.  If the at-large odds of acceptance rate at H and S is 5% and the odds increase to 50% based upon certain advantages, it sounds like a pretty smart risk mitigation strategy to go for the relative sure thing.[/quote]

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