Besides some more fundraising for my org where I’ve already raised $50k+ or increasing the impact at the startup I’m working at, I don’t think the extra month will make that big of a difference (I can only raise so much money and sell to so many police departments in a month). Besides, any accomplishments can be sent in an update. So, I think that I definitely want to try to get into somewhere in the early round and save on application fees too.
So, now I’m once again stuck between applying REA to Stanford which is pretty much the same as RD in terms of chances and doing ED to M&T with a slight boost but it is binding. I will say that just doing RD for all my choices was actually something I was considering, but I think my parents would shoot me (joking, maybe).
I’d be very happy with UMich, especially for financial reasons, just not as happy as I would be with a school like Stanford.