<p>Don’t mean to speak for you, Mac, but I think the premise is that if each kid that was accepted EA to either HYP or S withdraws their RD ap to the remaining schools, the pool of RD applicants will be less competitive.</p>
<p>But if Stanford, for example, accepts a kid in the RD round who has already been accepted EA by Harvard - they (Stanford) will just take someone off the waitlist to fill their enrollment.</p>