Sr. Parents: Question about ED

garland
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:53:07 +0000

We had a positive expereince that potentially could have echoed jmmom’s, but went the opposite way. S had been a huge UMich fan forever, but from the day he set foot on the Columbia campus, he knew it was his number one. He applied to UM rolling, and Columbia ED. the Michigan acceptance came a month before the ED would be announced. At that moment, he felt he couldn’t lose; he was going to his first or second choice school. For that month, I kept asking S if he was absolutely sure, since if accepted by C, then he’d have to turn down UM Honors. He never swerved. He applied to C solely because it was his clear first choice, not for strategic reasons. He did not admit to one second of buyers remorse when he got the acceptance. A few days later, however, UM awarded him a huge merit scholarship… In our minds, the ED was binding, so we never even had a discussion about whether he should change because of the money. And I’m glad of that, because it was clear that he was heading to the school he most wanted, and I’d’ve felt pretty bad pressuring him to change his mind. It was a different scenario from jmmom’s because though he loved both schools, he felt a clear preference for one.

Having that decided in December was as good a reason for ED as any. He was thrilled with being done with the whole thing