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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK let's do this with some hypotheticals. Suppose your child wants to attend a mid-sized college on the east coast with a business school. (I'm using all Catholic examples here to make it more apples:apples.) Your choices are (in order of difficulty of admission) Georgetown, BC, Villanova, Fordham, Providence. Let's say GU and BC are reaches, Villanova is a match, and Fordham and Providence are likelies.

Student decides their top choices are Georgetown and BC. Decides against Georgetown due to its EA policy. Decides BC is too much of a reach, so decides on Villanova for ED1. They love Villanova and, while they *like* Fordham and Providence, far prefer Villanova.

If deferred by Villanova in ED1, would you tell them to apply to Fordham ED2? Or roll the dice on BC as an ED2 pick and keep their Villanova dream alive?

This is the scenario we may find ourselves in (although, none of these five schools.) I am trying to help manage my kid's expectations -- for example, by finding more "target" schools.[/quote]

I see the logic here. You are applying to BC ED2 just for the heck of it because you don’t want to foreclose the possibility of getting into Villanova RD (unless you got lucky and got into BC).

I think you would need to have a realistic probability in mind as far as getting into Villanova having been deferred as well as the risk of not getting into Fordham or Providence RD and ending up somewhere even worse.

In my DC’s case we were worried DC would end up with some not so great options if it came down to RD (because we went 0 for 2 swinging for the fences in ED) so we aimed a little lower ED2 and it worked, no regrets.

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You understand me :) That's what I'm worried about -- getting to RD with some not-so-great options. I guess I need to make my kid be not so in love with their ED1 pick.

Do schools typically provide the percentage of students who are deferred ED and then accepted RD? I wonder if those rates are approximately the same as the RD acceptance rate, or better (since they know the child is likely to accept their offer, since they initially applied ED1.)[/quote]

I’m not sure but it seems that if your kid didn’t make the cut ED1, [b]why would the school change its mind[/b]? It’s kind of like getting off the waitlist. Possible but do you really want to count on it? I think after the ED1 school defers or rejects your kid, it becomes pretty easy to fall out of love with that school.  It’s also important to be really honest with yourself how strong the applicant is. If you’ve got some identifiable weaknesses, you probably want to play it a bit safer

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Many schools this year decreased ED acceptances of full pay kids that don't fulfill an institutional priority. In this person's scenario, I think Villanova would reject the student if they had no interest in considering them later in RD.  This shift in ED policy shift was quite pronounced in 2023 admissions cycle. My kid didn't do any better in RD after EA/ED deferrals - but I know others that did. [/quote]

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