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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED is such a scam. It's to give a leg-up to full pay rich kids and legacies. That's the sole reason for ED's existence. I guarantee that many competitive universities will soon be fill 75%+ of the incoming class with only ED's.

I hate it and wish it was banished. [/quote]

While that is part of the end results (giving full pay a leg up), ED is really for the schools to maximize yield. Look at how many schools have added ED2 in the past 5 years.  That's so they can catch all of the kids who don't get into their ED.  Most "top schools" fill over 50% of their incoming class with ED.  Some schools with EA even use their ED2 to poll students/encourage students who were deferred to RD to switch to ED2---basically saying if you switch you will get in---the college is worried about their yield.

However, ultimately any school that costs ~$75-80K will ultimately end up with a significant percent of full pay students, even if they didn't have ED---unless they have an endowment to give more grants to all students, there will be many families that cannot afford the 75K/year and will be forced to go elsewhere
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