All eyes are on this year’s ED applications which were invented by the east coast LACs as a bulwark against the Ivy League edge in nationwide branding. Will full-pay families apply at the same rates as in years past? What will happen to colleges like the Claremonts, Amherst and Bowdoin that didn’t completely re-open due to precautions against the coronavirus? There is open talk on CC that it could scramble the decades long rankings pecking order that traditionally placed the wealthiest LACs at the top of USNews and other polls.