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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not sure the fault lies with ED here.  Sounds like your daughter got herself a little wrapped around the axle and would be that way regardless of whether ED was an option.
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+1. Do you think that she wouldn’t be wound this tight if she was waiting for EA or RD for a decision?  Spoiler alert: if she was that invested in such a competitive school and had arranged her whole life around it, this breakdown would have happened at whatever point in the process she was due to find out the decision.  Now, if she gets in, she knows early and is done with apps.  If not, she has time over the holidays (and not around really awful mean girls who say stuff like this and kids celebrating ED acceptances) to process and recalibrate before EA and submitting RD.

Realize that under these circumstances, the breakdown probably would have come at whatever point the email was sent about decision release (because a school that emails in advance of ED would also email in advance of EA or RD.  Maybe it’s better to get this out of her system now.  It’s better than all RD schools and having a breakdown on 4/1, especially if she got denied and needed to focus on what school she actually would be attending.

There are some legit critiques of ED, like it favoring wealthy kids who don’t need to compare financial aid. Having mean girl friends and a loser focus on only one school is not the fault of ED. It’s a feature of the entire admissions process. And given how irrationally angry you seem towards ED, which isn’t the actual problem, , it’s hard to believe you aren’t playing a role here too, whether you mean it or not. [/quote]

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