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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is paying attention other than a few hall monitors on DCUM. He will go to ED. No one has explained why it makes any difference if he just sees whether he gets in and then immediately declines. He’s not going to any of these other schools - he’s not even interested in most of them (other than 1 which I’m sure he won’t get into). So calm down dcum. He’s not taking a spot. He’s simply competitive like everyone else. [/quote]

NP. Are you not reading any of this thread closely? People above have explained this already. Here are two different posts you seem to have ignored:

[i]Because schools only take so many students from each high school. If you were accepted to ED and then didn't pull your applications from other schools, someone else in your school will get denied (maybe waitlisted) because they give you an offer. I guess if you and your kid don't care about other kids in your high school, then this isn't a reason. For most of us, it is.

....Why take the risk at all if your kid is not going to accept any offer except the ED offer? Just so you or your kid can brag about acceptances? And for sure it's a risk - what happens when you ask the counselor to send midyear reports to RD apps? My kid got in ED and no matter how curious we were about the outcomes elsewhere, I can't believe anyone would be so stupid or so selfish to push their luck like this.[/i]

So, PP above who thinks "he's not taking a spot" if your son sits back and waits to hear from every place to which he applied, after he's already got an ED acceptance in hand: He is, indeed, potentially taking a spot, because colleges only take so many students from each high school. How are you not aware of this fact? I'ts not just DCUM "hall monitors" saying this; ask the high school counselor, FFS.

And if you are aware of all this, why do you think your son is so special he should possibly sink another student's chances just because he wants bragging rights -- even if only in his own head -- to be able to say he got into other colleges? Was his ED not sufficiently "competitive" as an admission for you and for him? Will it matter to him or anyone in a few years whether he did or didn't get into others on his list? It won't matter then. It actually won't matter even by the end of this school year.

You're also teaching your son that a commitment, made in writing, doesn't really apply to him. He made that commitment by applying ED. So you want him to have the possible ED boost but also want him to rack up other acceptances entirely to see how "competitive" he was at all those other schools. Wow.

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