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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know several girls who felt this way. Slways girls. Both because they worked so hard and have a harder time differentiating themselves in admissions, and because they care more than the average boy about external validation. They have been socialized to care a lot about external approval by our culture and it makes it harder.[/quote]

But doesn't the whole ED process encourage kids to pick a school that they would choose above all other schools?  The one school where, if they got in, they would love to go over any other of the 1,000 plus schools out there?  I feel like it does and back when we were applying to college, ED was not considered to be providing the advantage that it does now.[/quote]

It's important to have a layered strategy, typically including EA safeties, EA targets (if any), ED, ED2, and RD (reach, target).[b]  ED and ED2 should be DC's dream schools, they could be low reach or high target. [/b] In RD, DC should have a good mix of reach and target, providing that DC got in at least one safety in EA.  OP's DC didn't get in any target indicates their strategy was flawed, probably there is no enough targets in the RD round.[/quote]

Good strategy/advice all around.

DC did the EA rounds and choose a high target ( I like that classification) ED2. Had 4.0 GPA and the 75th percentile SAT to try to lock the first choice down ( would have been really disappointed if ED2 was skipped and not admitted RD). Accepted ED2. [/quote]

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