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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you apply ED you are locking yourself in to one school versus being able to compare merit offers from different schools.

By taking lower stats kids in ED schools get to select for full pay or price insensitive families.

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how perverse. you know there are plenty enough full pay kids to fill the school's roster at the stats the school wants. But if it makes you feel better to think that only rich, lower stats kids get in ED, then sure.[/quote]

Not every ED kid has lower stats. But if the average stats of the ED kids are lower than the average stats of the RD kids, then that means that rich kids who can commit to ED are getting in over kids who can’t commit to it. [/quote]

At schools where ED matters much, the differences in stats between ED and EA/RD are not significantly different.  Trust me, no T50 school has an average SAT of 1550+ for RD and has a ED SAT average of 1500 (and even that is not that much different).  There simply are not statistical difference.  You just want to think that because you are annoyed you are not able/not willing to commit to $90K/year college. 
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One thing to remember for SLACs is that half (or more) of the ED applicants will be athletes.  A very high percentage of whom will be omitted with equal or lower stats than NARPs, who will be admitted at a much lower rate.  You need to understand when analyzing your ED benefit (assuming not recruited/hooked), what percentage of the pool is athletes and then adjust the ED admit rate to account for that if your kid is a NARP.   And, before you whine about this being an unfair hook, athletes add value to the school and, overall perform better academically and go on to better careers than NARPs as a whole.  [/quote]

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