Early Action vs. Regular Admission

cptofthehouse
Thu, 16 May 2019 15:50:28 +0000

If you are counting on a GPA Or course rigor boost, or another shot at the SATs, ACTs, early may not be for you. You can wait till you get the scores and decide whether you want to turn them in if you have extra time.

I have found that most of the time , EA and especially ED apps get a boost. The schools Naviance and more detailed records I’ve seen support that. Even with the more connected crowd at ED. I believe a study of Harvard’s EA results showed that despite their insistence that it did not. The two schools that I believe for certain that early means nothing are MIT and CIT.

At the small private independent where two of my kids went, Middlebury was a very popular venue. But it was also where a lot of the HYP crowd ended up after not getting accepted to their first choice Schools where they used their early crowd. The one year in particular that I was paying close attention to the admissions season, the 2 kids who got in ED were wise to do so early as they would have been head to head with the kids who chose a more selective school eRly, and then applied RD to Middlebury. Same pattern with Bowdoin, Pomona and some other such LACs. In that environment, for those in love with such schools, ED is the way to go. Looking at the stats for my youngest’s college, he was wise to apply ED. Big difference.

We aggressively used early action and Rolling admissions in our family and it worked well. I advise it for most scenarios.