Anonymous wrote:If the SCEA schools had any sense of fairness for students, they would accept applications and announce their results before the ED and EA deadlines of other schools.

Instead they bar kids from applying to any other private school and thus channel over 90% of the applicants without any hooks into the brutal RD rounds where admit rates are in the low single digits after they get deferred or rejected. It would be tolerable if they broke down their admit stats for the SCEA rounds so that unhooked kids could see their dismal chances, but they deliberately conflate those stats with that of legacies, athletes, URM's etc to maliciously and deliberately conceal and mislead unhooked applicants with a larger dubious admit rate that never applies to them. Talk about market power abuse. The only thing that would make this worse is if this were SCED, but wait.... For all practical purposes it really is just that....

They of course have the right to do whatever they want, but I can't believe that unhooked kids still take the bait. At least ED schools let you apply elsewhere in case it doesn't work out.

Anonymous wrote:Happy to say that life has moved on very successfully. It's true that they all end up where they belong. But I can't stand families that screw up the process for their community for no good reason other than short sighted self-gratification. Just putting a note out there to others about the benefits from being thoughtful of others. Not very religious but there's that " Do unto others..."

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious OP - why continue on with RDs at other institutions if you got in SCEA Harvard? It's expensive, time-consuming, nail-biting, an enormous hassle and a stressor on your kid. I don't get it.

I see nothing wrong with a successful senior benchmarking that success by applying to other Top Ivies.

That's the kid who will end up without close friends and other families for future recommendations and network. What people don't think about is greediness leads them to be viewed as selfish, inconsiderate and either not very smart about or blundering their social collateral. With all the early hooks, seldom would most view entry as the sign of a senior being successful purely on academic merit so what is that benchmark worth? What will be noted and remembered is the lack of character. Families who do this are forever remarked upon as lacking graciousness and not to be trusted. And in your case it didn't work so your DC's H success is not going to be attributed to merit at all on her part. The most successful families we know do not do this.

Trust me, no one will even remember, let alone nurse a grudge. Do you remember who applied to which college back in High school? If you do, I would think you were a bit psycho.

The families of the class remember their impress of the kid and the family. And it's not years down the road. It's early as internships and first jobs out of college. [/quot
PP, you’re either batshit crazy or still chafed because you ended up at some third tier college and looking to assign blame. High school doesn’t matter anymore. Drop the chip, move on.