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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My DS was rejected from a small SLAC in ED despite having a very strong application and high stats.[/b] DS now thinks it was a waste to put his ED option into a smaller school. Learn from him and use ED for mid-size or larger unis with thousands of seats for your ED and ED2 rounds. Don't do what we did and use it on a small SLAC that only has a few hundred seats to offer. The odds are against you.[/quote]

[b]Because your son was rejected in the ED round without being deferred to the RD round, there may be a problem with his application package such as a poor teacher recommendations or an essay that offended the admissions officers.[/b]

Several LACs offer ED 2 with a submission deadline of January 15th.

OP:Are you willing to name the small LAC which rejected your son's ED application ? Nobody will be able to identify your son & some posters, myself included, might be able to recommend similar schools to consider.[/quote]

This is school specific. Many are very clear that they reject most ED applicants and defer only a small number to RD. When a kid is rejected ED, that means the school did not see them as competitive for admission, which happens to lots of kids without there being any “problem” with their application (other than that there were many that were better or more aligned with the school’s priorities).[/quote]

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