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[quote=Anonymous]After all the stress, we had a good experience with ED. My child got in to their first choice school with a large merit scholarship. The scholarship surprised us because everything we read said that we were basically giving up the chance by doing ED. But we checked with the school multiple times, and they said they reserved merit money for ED, ED2, and RD, and that our kid can had a better chance by applying early. I thought--sure. But it was true!

Looking at that, I thought, "Well, they might have gotten into one of the tippy top SLACs instead of just a very good SLAC." But do I think the tippy top SLAC that doesn't give any merit would be worth more than $140,000 of merit at what is already a very good school? No.

I paid a lot of attention to Jeff Selingo's list and looked for schools that were ranked highly but still gave merit for various reasons. It seems like some of that is probably related to location, but there are other factors. It was stressful and sometimes I felt like an idiot for putting so much thought in it, but I'm glad I did now. My kid was not that motivated to do research and basically knew more what they didn't want than what they did.

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