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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It makes complete sense to wait on EA offers until you hear from all your schools.  That's just good strategy by an undecided student.  Nobody is disadvantaged because of that.

Now if her kid has her heart set on one school and she gets in EA, then she can go ahead and send in her deposit and decline the other offers, but I think that is the exception not the rule.  Most kids have a couple reaches on their RD list.[/quote]

I think we all agree on this:  if the EA wasn't your first choice, then it's completely understandable if you wait until other results come in.

We will have to disagree on what to do if you get accepted EA at your first choice, and whether colleges have perfected the art of predicting yields, and whether it makes a difference to kids who are still waiting to hear. [/quote]

You can continue to disagree; but there does seem to be a consensus that there is no need to rush the process, kids can take their time, visit their top acceptances in April, and then decide without feeling bad about damaging the prospects of others.[/quote]

Wow! There's consensus on waiting for your first choices to get back to you, even if you have an EA at a second choice, and I've agreed with you on that. But I count at least one person besides myself who disagrees with this so-called "consensus" if you have an EA in your first choice college. What's wrong with you, anyway?  What's this impulse to fight on things like yield, even when the facts are demonstrably against you? Weird....[/quote]

PS. Your arguments about yield were just bizarre, and clearly wrong, and yet you refused to give up until an econometrician weighed in. You're a dog with a bone, all right![/quote]

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