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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED is for colleges, recruited athletes, and suckers. [/quote]My daughter doesn't fit into the first two categories, but I don't think we were suckers: we are full pay, she knew without a doubt what SLAC she wanted to get into, so for her ED was a great way to just get the whole college search out of the way by December.

I don't feel like anyone gamed us at all; rather, we benefitted from the 4+ months of peace of mind it offered.[/quote]Non-binding rolling or EA admissions can offer that same peace of mind. Adding "binding" to the package and calling it "ED" benefits only the school.[/quote]

It benefits the student because the student likely has a better chance of getting in ED than they would EA.  The student is competing against fewer classmates in ED, because most of those classmates have other colleges as their top choices.  But if the college had EA, all those classmates could apply, and the student would be competing against all of them.  For a kid who knows where they want to go, ED is a valuable way to show that to the school.  In that way it adds a tiny bit of efficiency to college admissions, which is a horribly inefficient process.   [/quote]

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