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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the responses. They have a couple of safeties in the bag already. Waiting on some EA's in January. Our school does not have that many athletes (usually 2 or 3). Legacies possibly a few more.

Kid wants medium sized, not Liberal Arts type school (didn't like Amherst, etc.) Did like Emory, but not sure about ED there.

Has 4.3 weighted and all 5's on APs from junior year. That puts them in top 30% of class. Small school with about 90 graduating each year. I think JHU will be a long shot (don't they want top 10% of class?)[/quote]

At a school that size, class rank seems like relevant as a few kids can drop you a long way. My child goes to a similar sized school and I think the school conveys a general sense of things but no real rank as it is useless. Though most schools that size these days also don't do APs.

Unrelatedly, I agree with others that ED2 is evil. The process is already difficult enough. It just further complicates things. The only kids it benefits are those who have two top choice schools. They get rejected ED by their top, so they can apply ED2 to their second choice. It feels a lot like settling. The kids I feel worst for are those who are deferred ED and thus have to decide whether they think they will get in or should go ED2 elsewhere, rather than being able to wait and see how everything shakes out.

The obsession with managing yield has really made this process awful as they are all looking for creative ways to game the system.[/quote]

Yes, ED works for kids with 2 interchangeable top schools.  After his ED1 deferral, my DS got up the next day and completed his ED2 application without a second thought.

But I don’t anyone should apply to a school ED unless they love it unequivocally.[/quote]

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