Anonymous
05/27/2026 18:35
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So next year's strategy for highest stat STEM applicants:
EA to MIT, Wash U., Georgia Tech
Can you do this and also SCEA to HYP or ED a T20?
If you SCEA/REA to an HYP, you could still EA to Michigan and Georgia Tech since they are public, but not MIT, WashU, USC, and Case. If you ED to a t20, then you could EA to anything as long as it's not an SCEA/REA school.
You can also skip ED/SCEA entirely and apply EA to: MIT, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Wash U, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UVA, UNC, USC, Wisconsin, Georgia, Case, and Tulane. Yes?
Yes, you can do this, but EA does not give your child any real advantage since it's non-binding and a fair number of these schools care about yield and may defer your kid.
EA is non-binding, but an EA acceptance gives the kid a nice floor. EA acceptance means kid can whittle down RD list to only reaches. For a place like Wash U, that could increase early interest.
People who might have applied RD to Emory or Vanderbilt might decide to forego those apps if they have an acceptance to Wash U in their pocket, and only apply to high reaches. If rejected from high reaches, kids are not deciding btw Wash U and Emory/Vanderbilt/NW. They just go to Wash U.
Definitely not true. Nobody is picking WashU over Vandy/NU/other higher-ranked schools.
Anonymous
05/27/2026 18:34
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So next year's strategy for highest stat STEM applicants:
EA to MIT, Wash U., Georgia Tech
Can you do this and also SCEA to HYP or ED a T20?
If you SCEA/REA to an HYP, you could still EA to Michigan and Georgia Tech since they are public, but not MIT, WashU, USC, and Case. If you ED to a t20, then you could EA to anything as long as it's not an SCEA/REA school.
You can also skip ED/SCEA entirely and apply EA to: MIT, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Wash U, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UVA, UNC, USC, Wisconsin, Georgia, Case, and Tulane. Yes?
Yes, you can do this, but EA does not give your child any real advantage since it's non-binding and a fair number of these schools care about yield and may defer your kid.
Georgia Tech EA looks hard at demonstrated interest for OOS, but it's not my impression that the other state schools do (maybe Tulane?).
Georgetown defers a lot, but not for yield protection. Georgetown actually has a relatively low yield rate. ND has very high yield and doesn't seem to yield protect.
Anonymous
05/27/2026 18:31
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So next year's strategy for highest stat STEM applicants:
EA to MIT, Wash U., Georgia Tech
Can you do this and also SCEA to HYP or ED a T20?
If you SCEA/REA to an HYP, you could still EA to Michigan and Georgia Tech since they are public, but not MIT, WashU, USC, and Case. If you ED to a t20, then you could EA to anything as long as it's not an SCEA/REA school.
You can also skip ED/SCEA entirely and apply EA to: MIT, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Wash U, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UVA, UNC, USC, Wisconsin, Georgia, Case, and Tulane. Yes?
Yes, you can do this, but EA does not give your child any real advantage since it's non-binding and a fair number of these schools care about yield and may defer your kid.
EA is non-binding, but an EA acceptance gives the kid a nice floor. EA acceptance means kid can whittle down RD list to only reaches. For a place like Wash U, that could increase early interest.
People who might have applied RD to Emory or Vanderbilt might decide to forego those apps if they have an acceptance to Wash U in their pocket, and only apply to high reaches. If rejected from high reaches, kids are not deciding btw Wash U and Emory/Vanderbilt/NW. They just go to Wash U.
Anonymous
05/27/2026 17:02
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So next year's strategy for highest stat STEM applicants:
EA to MIT, Wash U., Georgia Tech
Can you do this and also SCEA to HYP or ED a T20?
If you SCEA/REA to an HYP, you could still EA to Michigan and Georgia Tech since they are public, but not MIT, WashU, USC, and Case. If you ED to a t20, then you could EA to anything as long as it's not an SCEA/REA school.
You can also skip ED/SCEA entirely and apply EA to: MIT, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Wash U, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UVA, UNC, USC, Wisconsin, Georgia, Case, and Tulane. Yes?
Yes, you can do this, but EA does not give your child any real advantage since it's non-binding and a fair number of these schools care about yield and may defer your kid.
Anonymous
05/27/2026 15:44
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I dont see how they think this will help. The students who apply ED2 will just apply EA
Because EA deadline is before ED1 notifications, ED2 deadline is after. So say there’s 100 students planning to apply ED2. 40 match with their ED1 school. That leaves only 60 ED2 apps. But with the earlier EA deadline, they get 100 EA apps (and are magically that much more selective, without anything else changing).
No because yeild for ED2 is 100%, Yeild for EA will be lower than RD. Unless they dont intend to actually accept any EA apps like Tulane.
Anonymous
05/27/2026 15:21
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:I've heard of WashU having trouble with large public school (top stat) kids breaking the ED2 contracts.....maybe this will get at that?
No you haven’t.
If you double down…heard this from where and whom?
Anonymous
05/27/2026 14:20
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:I dont see how they think this will help. The students who apply ED2 will just apply EA
Because EA deadline is before ED1 notifications, ED2 deadline is after. So say there’s 100 students planning to apply ED2. 40 match with their ED1 school. That leaves only 60 ED2 apps. But with the earlier EA deadline, they get 100 EA apps (and are magically that much more selective, without anything else changing).
Anonymous
05/27/2026 14:19
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
I've heard of WashU having trouble with large public school (top stat) kids breaking the ED2 contracts.....maybe this will get at that?
Anonymous
05/27/2026 14:08
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So next year's strategy for highest stat STEM applicants:
EA to MIT, Wash U., Georgia Tech
Can you do this and also SCEA to HYP or ED a T20?
No, you cannot. SCEA doesn't allow you to apply early to any other private. Georgetown's EA does not allow to you apply ED anywhere.
Anonymous
05/27/2026 13:58
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
I dont see how they think this will help. The students who apply ED2 will just apply EA
Anonymous
05/27/2026 13:06
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So next year's strategy for highest stat STEM applicants:
EA to MIT, Wash U., Georgia Tech
Can you do this and also SCEA to HYP or ED a T20?
If you SCEA/REA to an HYP, you could still EA to Michigan and Georgia Tech since they are public, but not MIT, WashU, USC, and Case. If you ED to a t20, then you could EA to anything as long as it's not an SCEA/REA school.
You can also skip ED/SCEA entirely and apply EA to: MIT, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Wash U, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UVA, UNC, USC, Wisconsin, Georgia, Case, and Tulane. Yes?
I believe so. Although ND and Georgetown have some form of restrictive EA, your list doesn't seem to violate them. To be on the safe side I would carefully check them one by one using the school's official definition of EA. There are so many slightly different versions my head hurts trying to keep track of them 😆.
Anonymous
05/27/2026 13:01
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So next year's strategy for highest stat STEM applicants:
EA to MIT, Wash U., Georgia Tech
Can you do this and also SCEA to HYP or ED a T20?
If you SCEA/REA to an HYP, you could still EA to Michigan and Georgia Tech since they are public, but not MIT, WashU, USC, and Case. If you ED to a t20, then you could EA to anything as long as it's not an SCEA/REA school.
You can also skip ED/SCEA entirely and apply EA to: MIT, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Wash U, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UVA, UNC, USC, Wisconsin, Georgia, Case, and Tulane. Yes?
Anonymous
05/27/2026 12:59
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD applied to washu this year and wrote 5 supplemental essays. What are you interested in studying? Describe your community. 2 scholarship essays about leadership. And a special program for interdisciplinary study. And a video! It was one of the more intense apps.
My DD did everything you said except for the optional scholarship essay for creative writing majors. She also submitted an optional 90-second video which I think is still "requested" this coming year. Although DI allegedly wasn't tracked at the time, we went for a campus visit and she did BearChat with a current student over lunch. Love the campus and the vibes.
Admitted in RD? Stats? Major?
Unfortunately waitlisted in RD. 4.0/1530/13 APs with pretty good ECs (multiple leaderships and a long-term part-time job) but no research. STEM pre-med. Still think the school is first-class. Lucky to get into a non-Ivy t10 so wasn't overly disappointed.
Anonymous
05/27/2026 12:53
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:It isn’t good to be both test optional and have no supplements.
UVA
Anonymous
05/27/2026 12:52
Subject: What is WashU trying to accomplish by adding EA?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD applied to washu this year and wrote 5 supplemental essays. What are you interested in studying? Describe your community. 2 scholarship essays about leadership. And a special program for interdisciplinary study. And a video! It was one of the more intense apps.
My DD did everything you said except for the optional scholarship essay for creative writing majors. She also submitted an optional 90-second video which I think is still "requested" this coming year. Although DI allegedly wasn't tracked at the time, we went for a campus visit and she did BearChat with a current student over lunch. Love the campus and the vibes.
Admitted in RD? Stats? Major?