<p>Applied to school ED1 and deferred. I now would like to apply ED2 to my second choice school. I cannot figure out how to do this on Common App. This is allowed, right?</p>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p>If you are deferred at a school A it means your application materials will be reviewed with the rest of the regular decision applicant pool. I think you can safely apply ED2 to a school B, but if you get in, you'll have to withdraw your school A application.</p>
<p>Yes, no problem.</p>
<p>Yes, but if the ED1 school is your true first choice, you may not want to.</p>
<p>If you apply to the ED2 school and are accepted, you will have to attend that school. You won't have the chance to see whether you could have gotten into your ED1 school in the RD round.</p>
<p>I realize that I will need to pull RD application to ED1 school if ED2 comes through. I am just nervous that if I was deferred in ED1 why would RD be even an option? Sounds like RD to some of these LAC are impossible. Im so confused...</p>
<p>Being deferred to RD might just mean that the school wants to have the chance to view your app again compared to the others in that round. Maybe you were a strong applicant but they could not take as many as they liked in the ED round, or they want to see if your grades can come up a little, or whatever. It probably varies from school to school on how many they accept from the deferred ED apps, but many schools emphasize publicly that this is not just a polite way of rejecting you to let you down earlier. You might want to contact the regional admissions officer for your area and find out, in as positive way as possible, if there is something in particular that you could do to strengthen your app for RD.</p>
<p>I would assume that being deferred to RD means that the applicant has a meaningful (but not overwhelming) chance of acceptance. Probably better than average for the whole RD pool, assuming he or she was a reasonably strong ED candidate. And the fact that the applicant had been willing to commit to the college if accepted in December can't hurt the applicant in March. I know several kids who were accepted at their ED college after being deferred.</p>
<p>That said, I know lots more whose deferrals became rejections or wait listings in April. If a student would be willing to let go of College A if College B would commit to accept him or her, then of course the student should apply to College B ED2.</p>
<p>I sense "react" mode here....and I can only encourage you to draft the ED2 application but don't hit send until you give yourself several days to really think about how much you want School #1 where you applied ED. Try not to overreact..... breathe.... sooo many schools only take those kids that they want to LOCK in for plugging specific holes in their classes..... it does seem to me this year that many, many wonderful candidates will be deferred or denied early.... for consideration during regular and the good news is you can continue to submit news of your accomplishments etc and demonstrate why you are a perfect match for their school. If denied, you are fortunate in that you can now truly turn your focus elsewhere. Do not give up .... you will have GREAT choices, and know that you definitely need to hedge your bets with safeties and matches and reaches.... I often encourage kids to fall in love with 3 or 4 schools and not just one.... diversity is real and is necessary and these days, the truly unique kids are the most prized for early decision rounds ..... there is much room for all the other wonderful kids.... but ED in and of itself is not really for the benefit of the applicant, rather it is for the benefit of the school.... in my opinion. My girlfriend's daughter overreacted 2 yrs ago to a deferral, lobbed in an ED2 application, got accepted and ended up transferring out. She regrets her anxiety and panic..... her older sister had done ED and gotten in her first choice and so she was envious of her "easier" senior year.... the result was a lousy freshman year. None of us want that for any of you kids...... so try to take a step back and believe in yourself.....that you will find the right college and they will know you when they "read" you. Best wishes.....</p>
<p>Once you are deferred from ED by a school, all your binding commitments to that school become null and void.</p>
<p>I think after deferred by ED1, the logic at this point should be applying to all the other non-ED1 schools on you list through RD round. Based on my D1s experience last year, people at the age of 17-19 change their minds all the time. D1 applied for total 8 schools last year (including a state school). She did two schools EA and was accepted EA by both (she would not apply for any school ED/ which I totally agreed). She had set her mind on one of the two EAs for years. However, she eventually made the choice (her choice) of going to her current school that she did not even want to apply initially. I persuaded her into applying to this college right before the deadline. So she wrote sarcastic assays and thought she would get rejected. She was accepted and decided to go to this one.</p>