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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about this for your 2nd child?

1. EA UVA, ED1 W&M
2. If don't get into either, ED2 Tufts or Emory.
3. If don't get into any, widen options vastly for RD

Therefore still gets an ED option, but W&M comes first. Sometimes males fare a little better in ED2 because schools use it to gender balance and it's fewer athletic recruits.[/quote]

EA UVA is harder than regular decision and the kid runs the risk of a flat out denial.  [/quote]

But if denied rather than deferred at EA, would likely be rejected regular.[/quote]

IF OP's son wants to have a chance at UVA  before ED2 binding commitment to private, he would have to do EA at UVA.  The EA at UVA isn't objectively harder--but they do use deferred liberally. In many high schools with weighted grades kids have higher GPAs/more rigorous course loads after 1 semester of senior year than only after junior so there's advice to apply later since UVA cares about GPA in rigoroos courses more than anything else.  UVA really likes to keep the accepted GPA of students high so they will defer on borderline cases to get 1 more semester of grades in.[/quote]

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