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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The advantage of ED is greatly overstated here. There are certainly some schools at which ED is an advantage (or, put differently, it'd be a disadvantage to apply RD), but for most of the T25 universities and T10 LACs ED offers no real bump.

Anyhow, my unhooked kid's sole rejection last cycle was in ED. He got into 5 schools with lower acceptance rates than his ED school in RD, including a couple Ivies.[/quote]

"Reaching higher" in RD after getting rejected ED is much more of a dilemma than if you applied EA. You demonstrated the strongest type of commitment when you applied ED, so the natural inclination is to think you have even less chance when applying to highly rejectives in RD.

Can you even explain what happened? Luck of the draw?[/quote]
Everyone expects some kind of linear consistency among T20 schools--e.g., the traditional thinking is that if you get rejected from Cornell (8%) or Dartmouth (5%), you have no chance at Princeton (4%), or, alternatively, if you get admitted to Princeton, you must be a shoe-in for Cornell and Dartmouth. But it rarely works out like that in practice. In truth, there's little consistency among the most selective schools (~10%) at the individual level. Look at the results lists on Reddit or College Confidential and you'll find plenty of evidence of this. And, like I said, ED does not meaningfully increase your chances of admission at most of the top schools (although there are exceptions, like Chicago).  [/quote]

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