Rolling Schools/Safeties

soozievt
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:07:03 +0000

Apollo, as as point of reference, my D, a top student so to speak, graduated HS in 2004, six years ago. She did not apply ED anywhere. She did one SCEA school (deferred) and otherwise all her schools were RD and she found out all her results in April. She had two safety schools. They were Conn College and Lehigh. Now, I realize that the acceptance rates at both schools has decreased in the past six years and so keep that in mind, particularly with regard to Lehigh. But they were sure bets for my kid at the time. We didn’t even know that Lehigh had merit aid (most of my D’s schools did not have merit aid but my D applied for need based aid), but my D got a significant scholarship as well from Lehigh and a likely letter. For what it is worth.