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[quote=Anonymous]DD applied ED to Williams and was rejected.  We were fully aware that ED offered no advantage at Williams, but Williams was DD's top choice and made the most sense on paper. She was, however, accepted EA to the affordable public flagship.

Williams ended up being DD's only rejection. I urged her to at least consider ED2 somewhere like Wesleyan, but DD opted to shoot her shot in RD at ten very selective schools. She ended up doing extremely well and got into four schools with lower admit rates than Williams, including Penn, as well as many other competitive schools like Wesleyan. She ended up committing to another WASP LAC, which is in many (but not all) ways a better fit than Williams.

In retrospect, I think her strategy was sound. If anything, I wish she had applied to a couple more super-reach universities like Stanford and Yale in RD. Based on her other results, she may had a 30%-ish shot, which is pretty good. (Not sure she would have chosen them if she were admitted, but it would have been nice to have had them as options.) If she had been admitted ED to Williams, we would have been thrilled and I'm sure she would have had a great experience. It also would have saved a ton of effort between mid-December and early January, when DD was stressfully pumping out supplemental essays and applications for schools in RD. But, as I mentioned before, DD landed on her feet. All things being equal, I doubt she'd choose Williams over her ASP school at this point.[/quote]

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