Demonstrated interest —good or bad?

mikemac
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:25:56 +0000

JandyA:

Early Action used to be for showing demonstrated interest but the whole game seems to have changed.

Don’t know why you say this. EA is a way for colleges to be first in line with admission offers in hopes of swaying a kid. Colleges went to a common notification day because there is an advantage in being the first with the thick envelope and they each kept trying to be first. EA is an end-run around this, it’s not binding so the goal is building up desire.

Colleges are starting to realize it isn’t working as well as they hope so they defer and offer EDII. In effect they force the kids to show their hand. A kid that then applies EDII, they’re really interested. A kid that doesn’t, they probably wanted an admission in the pocket but are still hopeful of getting in somewhere else they like better.