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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The colleges review acceptances by school.  The point to selecting the SCEA ischool s that it is a clear first choice not just a stategic advantage.  Fit is suppose to matter.  The student has an advantage for admissions for a well-fitting school and the school wins with yield protection.  [b]When that same student uses a hook such as first to college or URM to trophy hunt during RD, knowing she will accept the SCEA because it was their #1 choice, it hurts the chances of her classmates during the RD round to land a good fit for them.[/b]  Waitlist is not done by school.  So the people that get hurt are your frends.   I think in the ancient past when elite college acceptances were much easier to come by and RD was a real round, some shopping probably did not have the same negative impacts.  Today the field is very different.   [/quote]

There is no logic to this statement. If the kid had withdrawn, the[b]re is not a shred of evidence that another kid from the same school would be chosen[/b]. Also it is more than likely that the RD school may actually pick up the phone and talk to the school counselor, to just let them know and discover that the kid is already admitted SCEA and may just waitlist or deny the kid and move on to the rest of the application. Schools are not dumb. Stop worrying about the other kids, they will be fine. [/quote]

But OP's child did NOT withdraw from Harvard . . . she continued on to apply to LACs and presumably other Ivies and schools that are difficult to get into which DOES hurt the chances of her classmates.  All applicants are competing against those in their own school because each of these institutions want geographic and school diversity.  In my DC's private, only one gets into Brown, Harvard, Ga Tech, Pomona, Duke, Princeton, etc.  That's why SCEA exists to try and get those students taken care of right out of the barrel and they are supposed to commit.[/quote]

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