Help an Anxious Junior Create a College List! [urban, pre-law, 3.8 HS GPA, 1340 SAT, retried, FL resident]

If you want to ED and money is no issue then sure.

Brown implies that ED has no advantage. See the link below.

If it’s your top choice, then it’s the only would to ED to. But why is it your top choice ? Have you been ?

What I would ask is - even if your parents would pay for Brown - what if you got significant merit at an open Rochester or a very strong Mac, would they then want to pay for brown ? Kalamazoo will give you a ton of merit and it’s a fine LAC with an open curriculum.

Just because they say they’ll pay doesn’t mean they want to if they can find quality for less. That’s the question to ask.

Yes Brown will be reachy. You’d be test optional with your current score. But no pain, no gain. And if it’s truly your top choice it could only be the one you’d ED too. And btw no one has to ED. Many of us didn’t allow it. Why ? Maybe we could pay but we wanted to see merit. And since Brown implies ED isn’t necessarily a lift, I likely wouldn’t unless you’d choose brown over $25k off or more at others.