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[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.

[/quote] If it were my kid in the hypothetical above I would advise then to ED2 to BC ONLY if they had a rolling admissions offer under their belt already, and it was highly likely they would get into Fordham and Providence, as in very likely based on info you have gathered and they have shown a lot of interest at both places. If they had no rolling admit already under their belt I would advise them to really look hard at Fordham /etc and see if there is one they feel comfortable going to for sure before ED2. Maybe visiting again if possible before sending in ED2. It is binding, so I would want them to be absolutely sure rather than just be able to cross it off the list that they got in somewhere.[/quote]

Thank you -- I think this is great advice, especially the last part -- " I would want them to be absolutely sure rather than just be able to cross it off the list that they got in somewhere."[/quote]

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