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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont buy into the "so glad we didn't ruin senior year" thing about ED.

ED has to be done by nov 1 and RD by mostly Jan 1.   Even if you do ED, you have to have your list ready and some of the supplementals at least started. That's conventional advice.

So this is done for all kids by early January.  The decision making time if you do RD is exciting. the power shifts to the applicant. They colleges woo you for a change!  The weekends are really fun, you get to think about what you really want, compare in a way you can't on a tour, etc etc.

IOW, all kids are done w the hard stuff by either Nov 1 or January 1.  I don't think the trade off is worth it.[/quote]

I see the purpose for a kid that has a clear 'this school or nowhere else'.   Though that's not really healthy.

[b]My kid has no clear front runner.[/b] He could see himself at several different schools. He also decided to go for many reaches.  He didn't want to be left with 'what if" or any buyer's remorse.

Personally, he's changed a lot since August. He even removed a few schools from his list that he really liked/toured last year--but by October lost the love for them.

Also--the prompts of many colleges provoked a lot of different feelings.  Some just felt like a 'fit'.  Others were a turn-off.  You could almost see from that exercise which schools were aligned with him--likes, personality, vision.[/quote]

They have to pick sometime, but these kids are encouraged to put it off until the last minute. We used junior year research and visits as the point to make a decision.[/quote]

A boy. He changed tremendously since he did college visits Junior year, and he also took his sport out of the equation.

He wasn't encouraged to put it off. That's just stupid. He applied to all of the schools known for being very strong in his intended major.  Some he grew to like more and more after Nov. 1st.

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