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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a rather odd question. Aren't EDs supposed to be binding, especially at the highly selective, excellent colleges. Surely you should have done your research into the college and its atmosphere when you initially applied ED? The RD deadlines at most good colleges are coming up very soon, you have only a few weeks. You're more likely to rush an application to a college out of panic and later regret it.

"atmosphere of hypercompetitive kids with rich parents" is almost always a subjective view. All "good" colleges are going to have hard working students because that's what makes them "good colleges. But there's only a handful of colleges that I'd call truly competitive - MIT, Swarthmore, a few others, and those are competitive based on high-volume coursework and high academic standards for grading, not cutthroat attitudes. The rest, including most of the Ivies, are as competitive or laid back as you want to make it. All "good" private colleges will also have plenty of wealthy kids paying full freight and to be frank, based on what I've observed and heard from others, the most "competitive" and "cutthroat" atmosphere are among Asian-American students driven by Tiger moms and many if not most won't be wealthy kids but on financial aid (usually first/second generation Americans). Certainly my own college experience backed this up - the rich and UMC students were the laid back ones.

As it is, good luck but I do think you probably panicked and rejected the ED offer on illogical fears. 
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Or resorting to a bizarre search strategy because of kid's reaction to one school.  [/quote]

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