Think of admissions as a funnel. EDII basically exists to capture highly-qualified students who got a rejection or deferral in EDI and lock them in before they default to RD at another school. Remember, a lot of the most selective schools defer a lot of strong candidates to see how their RD pool shapes up. EDII allows competitor schools to poach some of that talent. This is a feature of an EDII program, not a bug.
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