ED2: Vassar vs Hamilton

@curiouspup The way it was described to me is that it really depends on your HS. If you are in a large HS or one with a wide dispersion of where people apply it is less important than if you are at a smaller school or one where the list of applied to schools is small. For instance D is at a school where about 45% of the class will apply to 3 “tippy-top” schools. The vast majority of those kids will be deferred and therefore they will not ED2 - they will go straight into the RD pool. So, if you are a less-than-ivy applicant to a school RD you will be surrounded by super qualified ivy level applicants (as colleges read by school or district most of the time). That can put a qualified but not top applicant at a disadvantage. D had a few schools that she was ‘ED’ level interested in. CC told D she would be giving up a big advantage if she choose not to ED2 and that a school she is virtually assured of getting in on ED2 would be a ‘coin toss’ in RD. On the other hand if you are in a situation where not that many apply to the same schools, or if you are at the top of that pool, then you are fine skipping ED2.

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