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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For many kids the comfort of knowing where you will attend Dec-April and really being able to enjoy your senior year while others are chewing fingernails and busting to raise semester grades is a highly significant benefit.

This is in addition to the gigantic admissions benefit if it is a competitive situation.

The idea that kids generally mature and gain great insights during that specific 4 months is not really plausible, IMHO.[/quote]

A lot can happen in a few months - kid's insights could change due to mental health issues that arise, family illness, anything.[/quote]

Right, and that all ends in April?

Don't buy it.[/quote]

No one said it ends in April, but...I don't know how you can argue that kids don't change a lot throughout their senior year.  Not much may change for adults during that time span, but it's different for kids.  If your kid has lots of changes going on in their life and isn't sure what they want to do, then it seems sensible to not ED and use that additional time to figure things out.   [/quote]

No, it makes no sense.  At some point you pick one college to attend.  It is an admittedly difficult decision.  But it is no less difficult in April than it is in December, and that short period of time could be VERY costly in the admissions process.

I am not saying ED is for everyone. I am saying it probably should be for most whose first choice college offers it.  And I am also saying the idea that the decision gets easier with more time is false, because you won't have the ability to choose a college you got rejected from and might have been accepted to if you had applied ED.[/quote]

Totally disagree.  It’s probably student dependent, though.

My oldest could not commit and did not ED knowing it meant she had almost no chance at her 2 reaches.  She understood that and did not care.  She got into 7 schools (everywhere else she applied) and felt like she had good choices, picked a school and is not a very happy junior.  I suspect if she had applied ED to one of her reaches, she would gotten in (the other was a high reach so probably not).  Turns out, the school she would have gotten into had she ED’d would be a terrible choice.  She knew in her heart it was wrong.

Second kid has absolutely no idea what she wants.  She has schools ranging from 1500-50,000 students, rural and urban.  Seriously, no clue.  No clue as to major, etc.  if she ED’d it would be just for prestige schools and she would likely be unhappy.  She needs the extra time until April to figure out what she wants.  She was uninterested in visits because she was overwhelmed with the process.  This allows her to target some schools that feel right and visit a smaller pool later.  For a kid with executive function issues, it makes the process more manageable and less overwhelming.

I get it that some kids know and ED is there for them, but I would hate to see ED become the norm.[/quote]

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