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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's literally a scam in an anti-trust way:

https://www.highereddive.com/news/32-colleges-accused-of-using-early-decision-to-drive-up-costs/757337/[/quote]

Zero chance of this suit succeeding.[/quote]

DP the practice is discriminatory against the students. It is an anticompetitive monopolization. The binding decision is illegal. Independent entities who are in competition can not form a cartel to reduce competition between them. Restricting the number of schools that can be applied to and making the decision binding places the students at a competitive disadvantage.

Look at a place like Stanford. Restrictive Early Action admissions is 8-10% and regular admission is 3-5%. A student with the grades and test scores that match the profile of accepted students at Stanford would also have similar chances at Harvard, Yale, MIT, Brown, etc. If Stanford does not accept this student REA, the students now has to apply regular admission to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Brown, etc. with a much lower acceptance rate. 
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What you want to believe and what the law actually says are different. There is nothing discriminatory, you have the option to apply in RD if you do not want to apply ED. The decision is actually not binding, you can back out if the price is greater than the NPC. Schools also have every right to practices which help them with budget certainty and providing an advantage in return for budget certainty is well within their rights. The people most upset are those who want to chase merit. If you want to chase merit and compare that is fine but you need to recognize that you have zero right to attend any of the schools in the suit.

The actual admissions rates are typically not very different once you back out hooked students. ED as a big advantage is a myth at the most desirable schools. [/quote]

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