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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is outrageous that W&M, a public institution, only has early decision (not just one, but two ED dates) and no early action. The website says "While financial aid packaging at W&M will not be affected by applying Early Decision I or II, students who choose to apply early are making a commitment to attend W&M without having the opportunity to compare financial aid packages from other institutions. Therefore, if financial factors could impact your decision to attend W&M, Early Decision may not be the best choice."

Basically you have a state subsidized, taxpayer funded public institution that says upfront that they have two admissions tracks--one for rich kids who don't need to compare financial aid pkgs, and one for everyone else. What is the messaging to students from the get go?

[b]W&M is the ONLY public (to my knowledge) institution in the country to have only ED and not any EA option. Very few publics have any ED. The other "public ivy" Miami U has ED and EA, as does UVA. 
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No wonder W&M lacks socioeconomic diversity. Contact your state delegate and demand better--our public state institutions should not be country clubs.

It's also problematic that UVA as a public institution even has an ED option. UVA always moans about how it lacks economic diversity...you'd think they'd understand that having a special track for full pay students is undermining their ability to consider everyone at the same time. (And yes, ED is linked with benefits, = 100 point boost on the SAT, see Christopher Avery from Harvard's research) Shameful.

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Lots of publics on this list, OP.  https://blog.prepscholar.com/early-decision-schools-and-colleges-complete-list[/quote]

Op here. Where else is public besides Ramapo college of nj? (Also, at least ramapo offers early action. Find me another public that only offers ED and not EA. WM wouldn’t bug me so much if it offered EA but it doesn’t, which makes no sense as a public. [/quote]

What would EA give you?  You won't have any new financial information--the NPC tells you what their financial aid offer will be. You'll have to wait for other offers to compare.  You won't know about merit awards because those wait for the full pool of candidates.  At W&M the accepted student ED profile is near identical to the accepted student RD profile, so it's not like you can get in with lower grades/scores if you ED.[/quote]

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