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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There really isn't that much advantage to ED acceptances (most indicate a 1-2% chance advantage at best--people don't know how to interpret admission rates properly) to make it worth the risk.

Unfortunately there is a big advantage to applying ED. Some private high schools have graduating classes where the majority of the class applies ED somewhere. Many colleges get approx 50% of their freshman class from ED. For example, one school that has a 28% admit rate for RD, has a 40% admit rate for ED. Another has a 25% admit ED and about a 10% for ED. There have been many articles written about how ED is a tool for the wealthy and how unfair it is to the non wealthy. A few years ago several schools eliminated it for that very reason. [/quote]

Our DD went to a private school that had a lot of kids apply ED. I was amazed at the schools that the girls were admitted to. There seemed to be certain schools that were ‘feeder schools’ that accepted multiple girls each year. These are very good schools with low admittance rates and many girls are admitted.  Then there were other schools that the girls wanted to go to that seemed to be ‘rationed’. It’s like they only expected to possibly get 1 girl in each of these schools so they seemed to subtly steer these girls to different schools and then highly recommended them and supported their application at that one school if that makes sense. If they had 5 girls wanting to go to school X but only thought they could get one in, they seemed to support one girl at school X and encouraged the other girls to choose another school. Sometimes they had to choose another school when they were rejected ED.

[b]Also - ED happens very quickly in November. It’s possible that your child hasn’t applied to other schools before they receive their ED decision. My DD had no other apps in to cancel.[/b]

And as for ED being a rich people thing, if that’s true and there are many full pay ED kids that should mean that their is aid left for your not rich kid, which is often the case. I wouldn’t apply ED to a school that is known to be stingy with aid, but there are some that are not. [/quote]

This doesn't mean that declining an ED acceptance wouldn't affect her upcoming applications.  Your counselor and other schools that [b]offer ED[/b] will see that you broke your ED contract.  There's no official policy on what they will do with that information, but I can't imagine that it would be benign.[/quote]
(*edited because I missed a word--I know that other schools that offer ED have access to the info, not sure about schools that don't)[/quote]

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