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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not losing its luster but I think paradoxically for a lot of us with high stats kids it’s become so impossible to get into that it and most of the Ivies are not even part of the conversation like they were when I was a teen (and I went to an Ivy if never get into today). My kid realizes ED is the best chance of getting into a reach so the group of schools without ED are off the table. And he doesn’t want to spend his ED chip on any other Ivy so it’s not do much lack of luster but there’s a group of kids who have just kind of moved on from that subset of schools. [/quote]
This is a great approach, and one that basically every high stat but non-hooked student from a major metropolitan area should take these days: avoid the SCEA schools like the plague. Most of these kids think, well, I’ll buy the lottery ticket and have a 5-10% chance of admission. But for the vast majority, their real chances of admission are 0%, topping out at 1%. And once rejected or deferred, they have not only lost out on an ED opportunity but not even applied EA to any private schools (which SCEA, unlike ED, prevents). Then the kids are stuck with RD only, and often end up going to a school a notch or two below what they had anticipated.

Better to ED to a school where you have a real chance of getting in…[/quote]

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