Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 20:19     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Anonymous wrote:My kid REA'd at Harvard and was waitlisted. He was devastated and our house sucked until March 27th. In the meantime, he wrote a LOCI and had two other teachers write recs for him. He doubled down on reaching out to current students in leadership positions and discussed that in his LOCI. He forwarded letters of acceptance from other top tier Universities and stated that he still wanted Harvard. He was accepted RD!!!


I'm obviously not a Harvard AO, but if I was, I would have rejected the applicant for the bolded. Obnoxious!
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 20:06     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:ED to Dartmouth. deferred and then waitlisted and then denied. Sibling applicant but sibling is no longer at Dartmouth (just graduated and very strong student while there). Very strong applicant. Wrote a LOCI, had a teacher write an additional rec and it was a "this is the best student of my 20 year career" letter (teacher shared the letter) but nothing moved the needle.

Got into 2 Ivies RD and 2 other top 20 schools and 2 top 10 liberal arts schools.


frankly, f-you Dartmouth. We know 2 other kids that had a similar experience this year. all were strung along for 9 months. We all would have welcomed a denial in December over what happened.


Not my kid, but I know a Yale sibling - utterly qualified in every respect - who was denied from Yale REA (not deferred - flat out denied). Got into Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and at least 5 other T20 schools RD.


Ugh!! My senior loves his brother’s school and is also very close to his brother. He actually has even better stats—but I fear this happening as well. It pisses me off twins would both get in, but siblings one year apart are treated differently.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 19:55     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Anonymous wrote:ED to Dartmouth. deferred and then waitlisted and then denied. Sibling applicant but sibling is no longer at Dartmouth (just graduated and very strong student while there). Very strong applicant. Wrote a LOCI, had a teacher write an additional rec and it was a "this is the best student of my 20 year career" letter (teacher shared the letter) but nothing moved the needle.

Got into 2 Ivies RD and 2 other top 20 schools and 2 top 10 liberal arts schools.


frankly, f-you Dartmouth. We know 2 other kids that had a similar experience this year. all were strung along for 9 months. We all would have welcomed a denial in December over what happened.


Not my kid, but I know a Yale sibling - utterly qualified in every respect - who was denied from Yale REA (not deferred - flat out denied). Got into Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and at least 5 other T20 schools RD.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 19:53     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Yale SCEA → W&M Monroe OOS
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 19:48     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
ED to Dartmouth. deferred and then waitlisted and then denied. Sibling applicant but sibling is no longer at Dartmouth (just graduated and very strong student while there). Very strong applicant. Wrote a LOCI, had a teacher write an additional rec and it was a "this is the best student of my 20 year career" letter (teacher shared the letter) but nothing moved the needle.

Got into 2 Ivies RD and 2 other top 20 schools and 2 top 10 liberal arts schools.


frankly, f-you Dartmouth. We know 2 other kids that had a similar experience this year. all were strung along for 9 months. We all would have welcomed a denial in December over what happened.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 19:20     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Among my DS's friendsd at a compettive private, no one admitted ED to Ivys except athletes. Several accepted (to different Ivy or to the one that deferred them) in RD.
I didn't believe that Ivy league ED is for legacy, athletes and special circumstances but now I do.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 19:14     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
REA to Yale, deferred, accepted ED2 to UChicago.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 19:11     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kid REA'd at Harvard and was waitlisted. He was devastated and our house sucked until March 27th. In the meantime, he wrote a LOCI and had two other teachers write recs for him. He doubled down on reaching out to current students in leadership positions and discussed that in his LOCI. He forwarded letters of acceptance from other top tier Universities and stated that he still wanted Harvard. He was accepted RD!!!


I'm glad your kid was admitted, but honestly, the constant pestering usually doesn't work. Perhaps he was admitted for other reasons.


+1 that is usually viewed as obnoxious behavior.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 19:00     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
REA Yale - deferred to rejected, got into 3 ivies and other top schools in RD. Attending Brown.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 18:58     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
My daughter didn’t but many of her friends did.

ED Brown rejected -> attending Rice
REA Yale rejected -> attending Cornell
ED Penn rejected -> attending Cornell
ED brown rejected -> attending Tufts
ED Cornell rejected -> attending Purdue
ED Cornell rejected -> attending BC
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 18:37     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Anonymous wrote:My kid REA'd at Harvard and was waitlisted. He was devastated and our house sucked until March 27th. In the meantime, he wrote a LOCI and had two other teachers write recs for him. He doubled down on reaching out to current students in leadership positions and discussed that in his LOCI. He forwarded letters of acceptance from other top tier Universities and stated that he still wanted Harvard. He was accepted RD!!!


You mean he was deferred when he applied REA?

And then he ultimately got in the RD round?
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 18:35     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Anonymous wrote:My kid REA'd at Harvard and was waitlisted. He was devastated and our house sucked until March 27th. In the meantime, he wrote a LOCI and had two other teachers write recs for him. He doubled down on reaching out to current students in leadership positions and discussed that in his LOCI. He forwarded letters of acceptance from other top tier Universities and stated that he still wanted Harvard. He was accepted RD!!!


I'm glad your kid was admitted, but honestly, the constant pestering usually doesn't work. Perhaps he was admitted for other reasons.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 18:09     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Anonymous wrote:My kid REA'd at Harvard and was waitlisted. He was devastated and our house sucked until March 27th. In the meantime, he wrote a LOCI and had two other teachers write recs for him. He doubled down on reaching out to current students in leadership positionssand discussed that in his LOCI. He forwarded letters of acceptance from other top tier Universities and stated that he still wanted Harvard. He was accepted RD!!!


Not op, but what exactly does this mean?
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 18:04     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
My kid REA'd at Harvard and was waitlisted. He was devastated and our house sucked until March 27th. In the meantime, he wrote a LOCI and had two other teachers write recs for him. He doubled down on reaching out to current students in leadership positions and discussed that in his LOCI. He forwarded letters of acceptance from other top tier Universities and stated that he still wanted Harvard. He was accepted RD!!!
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 17:58     Subject: If your kid ED'ed or the equivalent (i.e. Restrictive Early Action) to an ivy and was denied
Can you answer:

- Which school denied them?

- Where did they end up?

Kid is trying to evaluate the risk of using an ED on an ivy which is an unlikely admit based on statistics.

Thanks