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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]REA will not. A kid last year accepted into Yale REA, and then applied Harvard RD and accepted, thus wasted the Yale spot. If Harvard is your first choice, apply Harvard REA. The Yale REA spot could go to another student at the same school. A highly selective college only takes a limited number of students from the same high school. The student’s strategy is getting into relatively easier Yale first. Playing this kind of game is truly unethical![/quote]

Come on.  This is just inaccurate.  Please site evidence for your claim that "a highly selective college only takes a limited number of students from the same high school."  I know for a fact that Yale accepted AT LEAST 11 students from the Sidwell class of 2015.  That is, 11 kids enrolled at Yale, perhaps even more were accepted.  The idea that there are certain number of slots allocated to any school (including Sidwell) so that one kid is taking a slot that would have gone to another is just ridiculous.  That is not how admissions works. Also, the idea that the student had a "strategy" to apply REA to Yale because it is easier to gain admission to than Harvard is absurd.  Any kid that is smart enough to get into those schools would understand that there is no meaningful statistical advantage in comparing schools with 3% and 4% acceptance rates.[/quote]

The admissions landscape has totally changed due TO, first gen and other factors. You can’t use class 2015 as an example. [/quote]

First gen has been a factor since before 2015. The last few years have felt different early wise but haven't been as different as people are making them sound once full results have come out by April. The admissions landscape hasn't "totally changed" due to TO. Take a breath :) [/quote]

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