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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is an unhooked, no sport, no legacy, white male who applied ED and got in. I know ED and full pay helped him. [/quote]

How do you know that?[/quote]

His stats were below the midlines in the CDS. [/quote]

You bring up an interesting point - college office says ED long shot no longer works.  I took that to mean don’t bother if you are below the stats 25%.  However, others took it to mean ED doesn’t help much if you are at schools with less than 5% admit rate.  And others went another way, and thought it could still help if you were marginal ( say had lower test score but string GPA or higher stats but standard ECs).

Seems like this board has thoughts and experience on this.  FWIW, my kid is high stats (top 5% of class, I would guess, and 35 ACT but pretty standard ECs - president of lower-known club, varsity athlete with all conference and some very minor award).  So I figure Yale, his self-identified dream school, is out but wondering about the next level down, which he is still exploring.[/quote]

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