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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t really get anyone’s point here. ED is to get an early decision on your top choice. EDing to somewhere that isn’t your top choice is a dumb idea.[/quote]

+1  You either ED at your top choice, or don't ED and hope you get into your top choice.  He would be haunted for life not knowing if he would have gotten into his top choice by ED'ing to a backup school and having to go.[/quote]

Most kids don’t have a top choice school. And no one sane is “haunted for life” by getting into a good school in ED. [/quote]

I think it is incumbent upon parents to keep kids from getting too emotional about this process. There are many good schools in the US. Try to take it down a notch. Make pros and cons lists. Every school has them, even the top ones. Discourage putting any one or two schools on pedestals. [/quote]

This. DC applied ED to a top choice reach school. She also applied EA to any schools on her list that offered it and already has multiple offers/likely letters. We made sure every school on her list is a school she would be excited to attend.  ED decision comes out next week. She is nervous/excited and I'm sure will be disappointed if she doesn’t get in but she also knows has great backup options if the ED school doesn’t work out. We’ve been talking up the schools she got into (with great merit) and how she’s in a no-lose situation at this point. [/quote]

This was our approach.  Favored a few schools over the others, got into one of them ED2, along with several EA schools that were pragmatically chosen, and would have been happy to attend one of them.

It helped that our DS got into a target with merit the same day he got deferred ED1.[/quote]

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