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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there anyway to get out of ED? We are suffering from deep buyers remorse. Problem is, got some rolling admissions that seem like a better fit.[/quote]

For parents of younger students, please take this post as a cautionary tale about valuing gaining admission to the “best” school a kid can possibly get into over. focusing first and foremost on fit. This story is pretty common[/quote]

I think that you misunderstand this thread. Seems that the applicant regrets loss of chance at prestige, not fit.[/quote]

OP here - Yes, that's right, the PP is offbase. DC was very focused on fit overall in their search so both schools would have fit. The school not applied to (HYPSM) is very high prestige and would have been a decent fit. The ED1 school that DC was accepted to is still well-regarded but isn't HYPSM. It seems like a perfect fit.

So this is a story about a kid who valued fit over prestige but now wonders if they could have gotten into HYPSM.[/quote]

NP. Folks can tell stories of their kids' experiences all day long here, OP, and that's fine as cautionary tales for other parents reading this but -- what are you doing regarding your own student? I hope you're not feeding the remorse, even inadvertently. It's a done deal and you yourself have said the ED school is the better fit. The remorse is fairly natural but please be sure not to give it oxygen. Acknowledging it once coolly is fine, absolutely, but after that? Be sure your DC moves on and builds excitement about the rest of senior year and the prospect of the excellent-fit LAC. If DC gets stuck on remorse, I'd talk to the high school's college counselor (you, not your DC) and ask for ideas on how to get DC unstuck and enthusiastic about moving on. I do know one kid (friend's DC) who got kind of mired in "I'll never know, I might have had choices" after an ED acceptance, and that created some difficult months in what should have been a positive senior year. [/quote]

Of course we are not feeding the remorse. This is why I am posting, to see if others have been in this situation and how they got their kid to move on. [/quote]

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