The thread is about whether an applicant can take the words from a college (in this case, UChicago and its need-blind policy) literally. If a college can’t be believed completely in what it tells an applicant about its admission policy, can’t it be believed completely in what it tells an applicant about its need-blind policy?
@JBStillFlying I’m not suggesting UChicago is front-loading, which doesn’t matter anyway. The issue is whether UChicago purposely create both ED and EA to unfairly game the system without adequately informing its applicants. BTW, it plays the ED2 vs RD game with exactly the same strategy. You mentioned upthread you kid last year applied EA and was deferred, and then got accepted after switching to ED2. This is exactly how UChicago wants to play this game and it’s succeeding.