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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD was looking at highly ranked SLACs and had some not great grades sophomore year related to COVID. In winter last year, we set a goal of having her be able to make an ED decision by 10/15, to have time to get paperwork signed.

We did a lot of visits in spring, summer and fall.  A lot of discussion.  She talked to a number of people, like teachers, guidance counselors, alums.  And really put the time in.  By early Oct, she had three top schools and was able to rank them 1,2,3.  All were high matches that she was significantly likelier to get into ED.  So, she had an ED1, ED2 and a defer to RD. She got into ED1.

My thought after  watching it play out Is  that your kid needs to suck it up and make a decision at some point. October, April. Eventually you have to choose. If you start seriously doing college mid junior year and you and your kid have the mindset that the deadline is October, and do all the work, research, visits  you need to do to have a decision (we visited the 3 finalists twice), then you are ready to make a decision in October.

The problem is most people have a May 1 decision mindset. So, of course they aren’t ready to make a thoughtful ED decision.

The only downside was she still needed a college list and to start on supplemental essays while waiting to hear. [/quote]

Our DC was in a somewhat similar situation, though the not great grades were in freshman year. Very hard to raise a GPA when starting with a middling performance. But DC stuck with it and raised it to a 3.5. Then landed a strong ACT score. DC wanted to get into the best school possible, which was sometimes in tension with other schools that were very appealing though probably more selective than DC's stats. DC was going back and forth with a couple of schools to ED1, ED2, then almost gambled on one of those long shots. Fortunately, DC's college counselor talked through the scenarios and DC reverted to the ED1, ED2 apps. Also got off 6 EAs. Fortunately got in ED1 and is pretty happy with choice. None of DC's classmates got into the appealing more selective schools and that seems to have confirmed for DC that the ED1 was a good decision.[/quote]

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