A few hard questions

zephyr15
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:35:27 +0000

A. Accepted wisdom is that in most cases it will help – in some it will not. For example, if your grades are truly borderline letting a school see a truly fantastic first semester senior year can help.

B. No one really knows for sure. I think the best guess is that no one gets in who wasn’t qualified (i.e., wouldn’t have been in the pool of applicants under serious consideration RD). For those who are in the pool, it may be significant. The guess is that schools are looking to fill a certain number of slots with ED, and to the extent that the ratio of qualified students to ED slots is more favorable to the student, it can be a big boost.

C. Don’t know

D. Get good grades, good activities, etc.

E. Certainly a business with 5 digit revenue looks fantastic. Any business that you’ve worked at for a while and looks like a going concern will be favorable.

F, G. Nothing comes to mind.