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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When people say “you should only ED to a school you’d have no regrets with,” it makes me wonder if they’ve considered the regrets they could by not EDing somewhere more reasonable. [/quote]

+1. My kid got into WM ED.  A couple of her friends had it as first choice in state/ first choice match/high match, but used ED for the dream school and we’re denied.  But the majority said they just weren’t ready to commit in October and didn’t ED at all.  They assumed WM was a match and RD admission was a given because they hit the 50% or 75% stats on SCHEV.  Every single one was denied or put on the WL. White girls from NOVA are way over represented in the applicant pool.

A handful are  headed to VT or JMU in humanities or pre-med/ science.  Which are fine schools, but not the smaller school experience they hoped for. One is going to CNU because it’s small. Two wanted a smaller school enough to stick with SLAC admissions. And are headed to 50-60 ranked SLACs. They got into Kenyon, Oberlin, Macalaster, etc. with some merit. But not enough to bring the cost down to WM in state, which was what the families could afford.

All of these kids had stats in line with my kid.  And some had better stats. And there is a lot of regret.

My kid wanted to ED Brown. And I wouldn’t have stopped her if she insisted. But we looked at Naviance from her school and literally no one has gotten in. And we had an honest conversation about the fact she did well in HS. We looked at the number of actual slots once athletes, URMs, Legacies were admitted and the number than would go to white girls in the DMV.  She not top 5 kids in the class/ cure cancer 36 ACT, 4.0UW. We also discussed the fact that with WM, she has 100k left over for grad school or whatever comes next and with Brown, we would have to spend every penny.

She chose WM.  Got in and felt good. But watching all of her friends get rejected really secured for her that she made the right call doing ED.  It happens infrequently with teens, but she actually came in and thanked me for being honest with her about her chanced at Brown and her chanced at WM RD after her good friend was outright rejected.  This girl was so certain she would get in, she was making plans to. Room with DD.

DD  is very sure she made the right decision having watched it all play out among friends.

Every family will approach this differently. But in this environment, so not assume your kid will get into match/high match schools.

And agree with PP:  research.  WM outright says that they want kids who want them and that ED is an easier path than RD for unhooked kids.

Also, not having college admission stress in the spring was a huge bonus. Although I agree with PP. she had an ED2 school chosen and had 8 applications in to other schools when she was accepted in December, with 1-2 more applications to finish. She prepared as if she would not get in ED. [/quote]

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