Essays - Common App. vs. specific Colleges'

NorCalDad
Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:47:31 +0000

lspf72,



His guidance counselor said to go ahead with ED, but to have RD school applications completed and ready to go (no procrastinating) if the news isn’t good in December, so either way he’ll have plenty of writing to do.

This is exactly the strategy my daughter took, and it worked out very well. When she received her ED acceptance in mid-December (Emory University), she stopped her application process and did not file RD applications to a number of other private colleges/universities. She was compelled to apply to the University of California system (one online app for all campuses) because of the Nov. 30 deadline and knowing that this was a hedge against her ED application. We waited a couple of months to evaluate all the financial considerations before sending in her deposit. She then retracted all of her UC applications… but as life would have it, a day after UC Berkeley announced their acceptances online, she received something in the mail that she had been accepted there – they evidently didn’t get the word that my daughter had accepted elsewhere ED. (There was no temptation to change her mind, but it provided a few chuckles. … and a little consternation because my daughter was afraid that she may have taken a “slot” away from another deserving applicant ) Good luck to your son!