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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality for unhooked kids is that applying ED, SCEA, EA, and RD is like game theory these days. I absolutely would not apply ED/SCEA to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Duke. Toss those aside. Not happening for an unhooked kid from the DMV burbs. MIT doesn't care about ED so would apply RD if interested. But don't bother with restricted early.

I would look at your high school's college admissions from the past couple of years. Often, selective colleges are partial to certain high schools. And if your high school has had success with schools that your DC is interested in, consider it. And then you're just going to have to settle on your risk tolerance. For highly selective schools like Vanderbilt and Brown, it really is carnage in the regular decision round. But early action is at least possible. But if you choose wrong, then you're consigned to the chaos of regular decision.

On the other hand, if the kid really likes something a little lower ranked and with better odds, it can be the best call to apply early there. Provided that's someplace they really want to go and they don't get stuck wondering about other possibilities.   [/quote]

Why are you saying ED to Duke is impossible but ED to Brown is reasonable?  With an ED acceptance of 10-12% for Duke, that seems pretty good for my kid who would be competitive for any top school (doesn’t mean he’ll get in, but he has a shot: 1600 SAT, 4.00 GPA, 5.00 WGPA, MCPS magnet, state level awards in three diverse areas, etc.).  [/quote]

Look at the composition of the ED round at Duke.  It's extremely hooked private school kids and extremely talented academic kids from TJ who have national level science and math awards.  For many years, academic types, particularly math and science "nerds" have loved Duke in a way that they don't love Brown.  This is not a diss on Brown by the way, but I think this is where that rumor about Duke "hating" DC private school kids in the early round started.  [/quote]

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