Should I go for/risk EA? Thanks!

doubtful
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:39:55 +0000

But what’s the downside of EA? Deferral? Do they really reject students applying EA that they’d admit later in the year? The time stamp means that much? You suck in November but we love you in March? And the idea of improving your academic record substantively in one semester seems a stretch to me. If a kid has a 3.7 UW (lowish by BC and ND standards), even a 4.0 in first semester of senior year only gets him a few hundredths of a point bump in the GPA, and I can’t imagine that’s super meaningful in the overall, holistic application process that these schools espouse. It’s a smaller bump than going from a 33 to a 34 in ACT and the general consensus on practically every school’s CC board is that that sort of increase is not that meaningful. I don’t doubt anyone who quotes the school’s thoughts on EA applying; I just don’t see a big downside for the kid who wants to get his apps in early and has done their absolute best on essays. I’m not trying to be contrary or difficult. I just don’t get the EA warnings.