ED Disadvantage?

Chedva
Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:33:44 +0000

Aside from the financial aid issue, I have seen one disadvantage.

The student pins all her hopes on the ED school, and does not focus on other applications, even after the ED application is in. She gets deferred or rejected ED. She then has to throw together her other applications in very short order, while in a lousy frame of mind, and does not create strong applications. Her results are therefore less than stellar.

If your d has her heart set on Dartmouth, my advice is this: Do the Dartmouth application ED. Send it in. Then attack the other applications as if Dartmouth did not exist. She doesn’t have to send them until after she hears from Dartmouth, but at least if everything’s ready, she just has to push a button.