<p>… and DH is home from work with a 101 degree fever.</p>
<p>Just in time for the weekend. </p>
<p>Which means that all of us should be getting sick any minute now.</p>
<p>I really wish we had gone on our college visit trip out east a weekend earlier. He’d have a decision on first choice right now and if he didn’t get in, he’d be able to apply ED II to his second choice. The ones he really cares about will all announce in very late March.</p>
<p>ct1417 - In looking at this it’s telling me everyone has caught onto the apply early mantra. It almost seems like you may very well be doomed if you are going for a top school rd. </p>
<p>With so many going ED and filling up the roster with ED candidates up to 50% of the class, you’re also probably doomed if aid is part of the picture if it’s more a match/reach school for you.</p>
<p>eyemamom, re: fiasco, I was thinking the same thing. Throughout this process, each college gives us certain impression from the way they market, to their responses to ds inquiries, to the ease of tracking material/status, etc…
In the back of my mind, I think at times, if this is how the xyz college operates, I am not sure I want to pay $250k for my son to be educated there for four years.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting the link, CT1417. I don’t leave our comfy little room much so I don’t see most of the other posts. I do frequent the specific colleges DS has applied to in order to get the vibe of that community, but don’t make it to college admissions, college search or financial aid forums … and definitely NOT college chances!! </p>
<p>I saw an article the other day on EA/ED schools. One of DS’ schools admitted about 97% of EA and only 40% RD. I’ll have to see if I can find that link again. Does anyone else remember it??</p>
<p>One of DS’s recruiting coaches contacted him today to tell him to check his email tomorrow. I’m taking that as a good sign!</p>
<p>I guess that’s one way for the “need blind” schools to not truly be need blind. Most ED kids don’t have to compare FA packages to see what they can make work.</p>
<p>I am SO glad this is my last kid going through this process… it has gotten so insane it is almost laughable… seriously. I think they need to do away with ED, or pretty soon ED will be the new RD.</p>
<p>Hi, new here with a 2014 graduate. This is my second child going to college and we did not do any EA/ED decisions, but after reading some threads. I wonder if he should have tried at least one! </p>
<p>Good luck and warm hugs to everyone either way. I think the first of the RD’s for my son’s picks start next month in January. So not too much longer to wait.</p>
<p>Re: ED. I think at the smaller Ivies, a significant percentage of the ED admitted population has to be recruited athletes as the Ivies are all trying to field the same teams, more or less. Add legacy and/or developmental admits (few of the latter though), and the ED accept rate for non-hooked applicants just can’t be all that much of an advantage over the RD pool. </p>
<p>Our school has a large # of recruited athletes throughout the Ivies, NESCAC, Patriot, etc so our Naviance ED stats are distorted.</p>
<p>Eyemamom–the higher ED admit rates, and large % of class being filled via ED, is present at many schools outside the Ivies. If memory is serving me correctly, I recall hearing upper 40% from Wake Forest, Richmond, Bucknell, etc.</p>
<p>There was an article posted somewhere here saying that 90 or 92% of the students at Harvard-Westlake (private school in LA area) applied either ED or EA. I don’t know the figure for my own HS but now want to find out. While a handful of my friends applied ED back 30 years ago, it seems as though almost everyone is applying early in some fashion.</p>
<p>Beadymom—those are wild stats. Could it be Elon? Actually, their EA round is perhaps more rigorous than their RD as they take so many ED while deferring so many EA, so probably not Elon. I am not sure why schools offer ED & EA simultaneously.</p>
<p>4beardolls–I agree with you about the feeling you get from the responsiveness, or lack thereof, to student inquiries during the entire visit/interview/apply process. </p>
<p>Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend hopefully filled with good news for our applicants!</p>
<p>Not sure if it’ll make people more freaked out or if it’ll make people feel calmer, but here’s last year’s admissions cycle acceptance rate overview from the NY Times <a href=“2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;
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<p>eyemamom, keep in mind that the ED/EA applicant pools are different than the RD pools. There are the athletic recruits, the students who already have high stats who aren’t waiting on improving test scores or showing more of an upward trend in grades, the applicants who want to use legacy status to bolster their chances (which some schools will only consider during ED), not to mention that the ED/EA applicants are just overall more organized. That’s NOT to say that RD kids aren’t organized, just that there are going to be more procrastinators doing RD. 
Any individual kid’s admission chances in RA may be just as good as during ED/EA. Or just as bad. ;)</p>
<p>This is my second and final time through the process as a parent, and second time through ED. At least this time D2 has an EA acceptance in hand to a school she’s not visited, so if she gets a rejection we can immediately start planning for a trip. Silver linings, people! :D</p>
<p>Slithey—do not disagree with anything you have said, but taking off from what someone posted on prior page….I worry that an applicant is at a disadvantage when applying RD to schools that do take offer ED and ED II. Now, those schools don’t know that the applicant applied anywhere ED and was rejected/deferred; the schools could just think the applicant fit any of the categories you described in your last post. But….when an applicant comes from a HS where everyone is known to apply ED/EA, I think that applicant is viewed in a different light when he applies RD. Also, when that college has already accepted a # of applicants via the ED I or ED II rounds, the RD applicant stands less of a chance.</p>
<p>Purely anecdotal, from my own school-sized sample size here in CT.</p>
<p>I miss The Choice blog.</p>
<p>So where is this college bubble we’ve heard so much about anyway? 
I thought apps were supposed to be going down because the population of hs students peeked a few years ago. </p>
<p>I can’t really analyze all the stats. All I can do is make a good plan for mine. My oldest did ED, my youngest had all apps in by September and did every early action possible but had no #1 choice.</p>
<p>I’m with 5boys - so glad this is my last! Is it any wonder tuition is so high when kids and parents are driven to be so nutty about it all? At one point I remember thinking - wait a sec - I’m looking at paying YOU 56k/yr - you should be kissing my ass, not the other way around!</p>
<p>I’ve let some uncharitable thoughts get in my head about some people I know irl - time to slap me out of it - it’s irrelevant what any other family is doing.</p>
<p>[10</a> Colleges Where Early Applicants Have the Advantage - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2013/11/19/10-colleges-where-early-applicants-have-the-advantage]10”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2013/11/19/10-colleges-where-early-applicants-have-the-advantage)
This is the list I had seen earlier. In searching for this one, I found several others … </p>
<p>The Choice, that CT1417 referred to, seemed to have a larger list that spanned several years.
<a href=“2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com; (Oops, this is the same table that SlitheyTove posted … great minds think alike!)</p>
<p>I would consider the statistics more valid if they actually compared the qualifications of those admitted EA/ED vs. RD. If the average stats for EA/ED admissions were lower than for RD applicants, that would indicate it is easier to get in EA/ED.</p>
<p>2016BarnardMom, heck, it’s hard enough to read tea leaves just for RD! There are so many variables, it’s difficult to compare your own kid to the averages. </p>
<p>D1 was reminding D2 of one of D1’s high school classmates–brilliant kid who spent all his time in engineering competitions. His GPA suffered, and he was turned down by every school he applied to except his safety. Which is where he now is, a junior, deliriously happy.</p>
<p>Big decision day for a lot of kids tonight. Good Luck!!</p>
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<p>eyemamom, I think I love you.</p>
<p>Slithey- I wasn’t suggested to compare a kids’ credentials to those averages, but to determine whether the reason a higher percentage are admitted ED/EA is because the kids who apply EA/ED have better credentials or not. Is there a statistically significant difference in the overall qualifications? </p>
<p>Well, the University of Michigan has tweeted, Facebook’d and appeared on CC to announce that decisions are definitely not going out today and they don’t know when they will be. The other school we know he met EA deadlines for will be mailing decisions on the 20th. So, we shall be waiting at least another week before hearing from anybody. </p>
<p>Rolling admissions would be a really good thing. Having one acceptance under his belt would be a nice thing.</p>
<p>Oh! But he is making his theater debut tonight in A Christmas Carol. He has two roles because someone quit earlier this week and he already knew the lines from sitting through rehearsals. I guess he technically made his debut last night but I couldn’t go last night. Anyway, should be fun stuff :)</p>