My son applied RD before the ED application was due. I would not let him apply ED because we would not see other scholarship offers. There are two RD waves of notification. He didn’t hear in the first wave. He was accepted in March into a capped program that admits about 100 students, got into an LLC and got a generous scholarship. He wrote very good essays IMO. I do think his mid year reports were not ready before the first RD decisions were out.