Chance ED to Brandeis?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My daughter wants to apply ED to Brandeis. We only want her to apply if we believe she has a reasonable chance of getting in. Her chances of ED acceptance to the other schools she likes (tho not as much as B) are better, but we don't feel confident that she could get into any of them regular decision. So we don't want her to waste her ED app on B if it's a long shot. </p>

<p>Her Achilles heel(s): SAT M610 and paucity of AP & Honors classes, 1 AP, 2 Honors (Despite being a selective NYC hs, her school doesn't offer many AP & Honors classes, but they offer a few more than she took)
Her biggest strength is writing: SAT W790 , Editor of school newspaper, literary journal (3 yrs), AP Lang.
Rest of profile: SAT CR670. Extracurriculars: (newspaper, literary journal) student govt (2 yrs), several other clubs. Community activism: Project Cicero, student chair (7 yrs). Award: Borough President's Certificate of Excellence. She's Jewish, lives in Brooklyn (so her demographics won't help)
It would help us assess her chances if we knew how much weight B places on the SAT writing score? We know most schools either ignore, or place little weight. I posed this ? to someone in the B Admissions office, but couldn't get a straight answer. Does anyone know?
I would welcome input from others who have applied to B about her chance of ED acceptance. (Interestingly, in comparison to the other schools she's considering, very few kids apply ED to B- I wonder why. )</p>

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<p>SAT is slightly low (M+CR) although writing does stand out…what did she get on the essay?
there are other important and prominent factors such as GPA which would make chancing her A LOT easier—this is the most preeminent factor for college admissions and i cannot chance without it, it should be high though (~3.7-4.0 UW) b/c sheonly took 2 AP courses. Her EC are average for applicants to this school, although she does possess leadership qualities in her EC that will stand out to admissions committees. If she can raise her SAT CR+M / or equivilantly higher ACT a little bit i would say she is a strong candidate</p>

<p>Hope to see her there one day (if my screen name didn’t already give it away)</p>

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<p>ED acceptance rate to Brandeis is ~56% which is significantly higher than the RD acceptance rate of 39%.</p>