Demonstrated interest —good or bad?

JandyA
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 08:12:19 +0000

If the admissions team knows that your student wants to attend their school and they applied EA, will the school defer them and ask them to apply Early Decision II ? Unsure about the “demonstrated interest” and how much it would affect the application status. It seems that some of these college like UChicago, Tulane, etc. are doing this. Early Action used to be for showing demonstrated interest but the whole game seems to have changed. The more the schools decline at regular decision, the lower their admission rate, which is what they prefer to seem more elite, so they prefer EDs. But choosing an ED is difficult. The colleges have the upper hand now.