A question of morality.

MotherOfTwo
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:22:50 +0000

In the end, the same number of students will attend each school regardless of how many schools they apply to or are accepted at. Each person can only attend ONE school. So I don’t see how someone who be taking someone else’s spot by applying RD to the other schools. If they are accepted at the other schools and choose to go to Harvard or Stanford instead, someone else will take their place.

My son is currently a Stanford junior. He applied to Harvard and MIT EA (neither of these was single choice at that time) and 7 other schools RD. Because of the deadline requirements of our high school’s guidance office, he had to turn in all of his applications before he heard from the EA schools. He was not sure of his first choice school and therefore did not withdraw any applications. He also wanted to see what type of merit aid he received from ALL of the schools before deciding. He was accepted to Harvard EA, and deferred from MIT EA but accepted there RD. In the end, he visited Harvard, MIT, and Stanford in April and decided on Stanford at the last possible moment.