<p>Can you get your GC to call Brown and sort the issue out? That is, if the two kids weaseling out of ED isn’t a rumor. If your GC confronts the issue, and then sings your praises and emphasizes that this is your first choice (if, indeed, it is–if not, it’s probably not worth the trouble), I think the whole mess could be sorted out. </p>
<p>@golfer3, I agree that these sorts of admissions anomalies can happen to individuals, but when a prep school that has impressive relationships with Ivy schools and their ilk is, as a whole, discriminated against by a particular institution, that seems a little weird.</p>