College admissions is just not that complicated. DC ED1’d to one reach, didn’t get it, and submitted about 8 EAs to a combination of safeties and targets. DC is in all that they’ve heard back from so far (with a few more to go) with good merit awards and could be happy at most of them. The stress only sets when you find your targets and safeties unacceptably non-prestigious.

Neither of mine applied ED.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like everyone is EDing and my DC doesn’t have a clear favorite and is hoping for options in RD. Does anyone have successful RD stories to share from last year?

Most admissions are during RD.

No. My DS did not ED at all. Has gotten into everywhere applied so far. As someone with multiple kids I would apply EA and not RD.

Not at all. Mathematically it just isn't true. A minority of top students nationally apply ED. Most do RD.

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Anonymous wrote:DD attends a school she got into EA. But for RD she was deferred by six schools and eventually offered the following: off waitlist with option for spring start at three of the schools; off waitlist and offered early summer start at one; offered the chance to interview with head of admissions at one if she was still interested in being considered; and not accepted by UVA (OOS) but received email that she is qualified and encouraged to consider a transfer application the next year.

Bottom line is I think DD would have stood a good chance in ED at the first five, but the schools weren't willing to commit to her is she wasn't committing to them. So, RD at T50 schools poses some risk. She's attending the EA school on a full scholarship, so didn't end up accepting any of the RD "offers."

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Excellent take.

not really. It was a strange over-personalization of the process. The schools may still have been willing to admit her - the fact that she wasn’t top on their list wasn’t actually a personal snub.

Disagree. Point that demonstrated commitment via ED2 to T50 schools (esp. 30 - 50) in this competitive admissions landscape is key. It's evident in the RD rounds when there's 50k+ applications to sort out. Kids aren't waltzing into these types of schools RD, so yes there is some risk.

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Anonymous wrote:DD attends a school she got into EA. But for RD she was deferred by six schools and eventually offered the following: off waitlist with option for spring start at three of the schools; off waitlist and offered early summer start at one; offered the chance to interview with head of admissions at one if she was still interested in being considered; and not accepted by UVA (OOS) but received email that she is qualified and encouraged to consider a transfer application the next year.

Bottom line is I think DD would have stood a good chance in ED at the first five, but the schools weren't willing to commit to her is she wasn't committing to them. So, RD at T50 schools poses some risk. She's attending the EA school on a full scholarship, so didn't end up accepting any of the RD "offers."

+1

Excellent take.

not really. It was a strange over-personalization of the process. The schools may still have been willing to admit her - the fact that she wasn’t top on their list wasn’t actually a personal snub.

Mostly wealthy kids from well off public’s and almost all competitive private school kids. Many of them motivated by fear of being shut out. So depending on what school your kid attends, it can seem that way. But it isn’t. Most kids at ivies get in RD.

Anonymous wrote:DD attends a school she got into EA. But for RD she was deferred by six schools and eventually offered the following: off waitlist with option for spring start at three of the schools; off waitlist and offered early summer start at one; offered the chance to interview with head of admissions at one if she was still interested in being considered; and not accepted by UVA (OOS) but received email that she is qualified and encouraged to consider a transfer application the next year.

Bottom line is I think DD would have stood a good chance in ED at the first five, but the schools weren't willing to commit to her is she wasn't committing to them. So, RD at T50 schools poses some risk. She's attending the EA school on a full scholarship, so didn't end up accepting any of the RD "offers."

+1

Excellent take.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like everyone is EDing and my DC doesn’t have a clear favorite and is hoping for options in RD. Does anyone have successful RD stories to share from last year?

These “seems like everyone” posts are really boring and speak to lack of critical thinking.

Someone hears about four kids who ED—two they know personally and two others that they hear about from others—and suddenly it’s “everyone.”

Exactly how many kids from this class do you know that applied ED?

At our school (NYC public, among the most rigorous in the country, probably two-thirds of kids try for early admission to a T20), the ED round is always brutal. Every Ivy takes only 1 or 2 kids, and that's counting athletes and Questbridge. The vast, vast majority of Ivy and other T20 accepts are in RD, and it's a lot of kids in the end. It WILL work out.

DD attends a school she got into EA. But for RD she was deferred by six schools and eventually offered the following: off waitlist with option for spring start at three of the schools; off waitlist and offered early summer start at one; offered the chance to interview with head of admissions at one if she was still interested in being considered; and not accepted by UVA (OOS) but received email that she is qualified and encouraged to consider a transfer application the next year.

Bottom line is I think DD would have stood a good chance in ED at the first five, but the schools weren't willing to commit to her is she wasn't committing to them. So, RD at T50 schools poses some risk. She's attending the EA school on a full scholarship, so didn't end up accepting any of the RD "offers."

Not last year (that one did ED) but '21-22. We weren't sure how FA would shake out. Got into 3 T15 and several good LACs.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like everyone is EDing and my DC doesn’t have a clear favorite and is hoping for options in RD. Does anyone have successful RD stories to share from last year?

No, it does not seem like everyone is EDing. Not even close.

Seems like everyone is EDing and my DC doesn’t have a clear favorite and is hoping for options in RD. Does anyone have successful RD stories to share from last year?