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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am trying to figure out the downside of applying Early Action here? Particularly since it is now a pretty easy application? Get it done and get your response early. Probably not early enough to save you from doing other apps but early enough to know you are in somewhere if you get in.[/quote]

If it’s being done to game rankings…they add EA to get more applicants. Then at some point EA applicants will be asked to switch to ED with the implication being you’re rejected if you don’t.

As an aside, my son applied to two EA schools. Both invited him to switch to ED. He didn’t. Accepted to both with giant merit scholarships (both schools don’t give merit to ED candidates). [/quote]

The number of applications, yield, and acceptance or admissions rate are NOT part of the USNWR rankings. So posters who are ill informed should drop their claims that this is to game rankings. If schools want to "game" rankings, they can seek to increase the intake of first gen, increase the graduation rate of disadvantaged or Pell grant recipients (is the school good for social and economic mobility) , etc. Not that there is anything wrong with this but be informed. Look up the criteria.[/quote]

True enough about the rankings.

But if you spend any time on this board, you’ll see that private school parents distrust rankings, and instead of chasing the school with the best ranking or the highest test scores, chase schools with the lowest admission rates. And schools like Wash U need to stay popular with the private school set to make budget.[/quote]

or they walk away from rankings and become wake which they pretty much are already.[/quote]

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