<p>JHS, you’re right. If I had read this thread more carefully I would have understood that this really only affects S’s plans at one school - Princeton. Harvard’s program in what he wants isn’t to his liking and so he would not have applied there ED anyway. Princeton, I don’t know - he has a visit planned for later this summer to meet with some folks from the department. If Princeton is alone among his choices in not offering ED, I am sure he’ll decide to apply ED to one of its competitors. I’m sure Princeton won’t lose sleep over it with all its meritorious applicants. If he chooses to listen to me my advice to S would be to apply ED to the school to which he has the most likelihood of being accepted so long as it’s a school to which he would be thrilled to be accepted. </p>
<p>FYI, he has done his own research and is making his own decisions. I am no helicopter and so I am usually three or four decisions behind. That’s why I didn’t know that schools eliminating ED were limited to H and P. From all the fuss and hype I had assumed it was a widespread phenomenon.</p>