<p>Normally I’d advise students to just wait until they really decide to name a first choice. It is NEU, by setting a date before our April vacation, when the final visits and decision will happen, that is causing us to “play games” with possibly naming them first choice and then changing. We will visit NEU in February along with his other EA schools, and would only name NEU if it is the top choice “so far” after that set of visits, but he won’t have all his options known by then.</p>