I have only one example, which is my D, who is now a freshman in honors at Tulane. She got into many schools, including the aforementioned Tufts RD, which had been her favorite at one time. One of the things that made Tulane and the other schools that gave her merit attractive (and that were either EA or rolling admissions) was that she felt “loved” by the schools that she had shown love to. She had months of receiving letters and brochures, little mementos (Pitt and Case Western sent the coolest), and she had time to visit and re-visit those schools. By the time she heard from Tufts at the end of March, she had “fallen out of love” in a sense. Meanwhile, she did not want to do ED at any schools because she was seeking merit and she wasn’t really sure where she wanted to go anyway. So Tulane EA really worked for us!