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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't need to be: research, list made, apps done, wait.

The process can be very fluid and changeable.

You can be: apply Aug-Sept to several rolling-admission financial safeties to hear back Oct-Nov, adjust list. Apply to match/reaches. If "no" decisions come in, replace that school with a new choice. Visit again as decisions/final costs are known. Work the waitlists/financial aid awards. If DC is on board, keep as many balls in the air as possible for as long as possible. Sometimes details emerge that prove to be important.

Certainly there are those for whom ED, early decision is preferred.[/quote]

Not sure that works for the more competitive schools who don't do rolling admissions and all have pretty much the same deadlines.  DC did one ED (Ivy) and 2 EAs with Nov 1 deadlines.  No school that DC was remotely interested in had an earlier notification period (are there really decent schools you can apply to in August?).  DC did another round of applications with Jan 1 deadlines. Heard from the ED school (deferred) on Dec 15 and one of the EA schools around Dec 22 or so (accepted). DC had already completed and submitted several of the Jan 1 applications before the decisions came in from the two schools since the window between notification and deadlines was so short.  The results didn't really change the strategy so completed all but one of the planned additional apps by January 1 (dropped one thanks to the EA admit).  The other EA school didn't notify until mid January - well after the deadlines for all the other schools. So DC really did follow the research, list made, apps done, wait approach.  Unless DC had been admitted ED there was to other way to approach it. [/quote]

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