<p>also, what are the advantages of EDII? are your mid-term grades sent to the college when you apply ED II?</p>
<p>Yes, absolutely. EDII is still a big boost for need-aware schools, however.</p>
<p>does EDII exist? :/</p>
<p>Stressed, EDII exists at some colleges & universities (e.g., Brandeis and GW), but not all.</p>
<p>pspguy, EDII still offers colleges and universities a lot of the same incentives to accept a student they like as EDI does. Colleges like ED applicants because they know those students are going to enroll. They’ve locked a student they want into an available place in their entering class, which will be good for both the profile of the entering class and the college’s yield. Those benefits are pretty much the same whether you’re in the EDI round or the EDII round. </p>
<p>This leads me to assume that EDI and EDII are just about equally beneficial to applicants. Call me cynical, but I think when colleges and universities offer ED, they do it because they think it will benefit them, and if it benefits some applicants too, then so much the better.</p>
<p>then, how is EDI different from EDII? sorry if this is the wrong thread, but just wondering.</p>
<p>The advantage can be to the student–assuming that ED of any kind gives a boost to their application. D may ED 1 her first choice. If she doesn’t get in, she can ED 2 her second choice. Both are reaches and she is not getting financial aid. We may be giving up her chance for merit aid, but then again since both schools are reaches–maybe high matches–merit aid might not amount to much anyway (if at all).</p>
<p>Stressed, as far as I know, the only important differences between them are the deadlines and the notification dates.</p>
<p>I have always just kind of assumed that ED II, with its later deadline, was an invention by some selective–but not ridiculously selective–colleges and universities to try to lock in some applicants who didn’t get into their first-choice schools ED I. But I will admit that I have come to believe that almost everything colleges and universities do is designed primarily to benefit the institutions, and any benefit to applicants or students is just a fortunate by-product.</p>
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<p>Absolutely correct. But I don’t think the EDII boost is much as a need-blind school. Several years ago Emory actually published its admit rates and separated EDI and EDII. There was not much difference between EDII and RD, but that was just one college from several years ago.</p>
<p>Colleges like Colgate, which are need-aware, probably like EDII equally well since it locks in full payors (generally).</p>