<p>Do schools look for a relatively high yield from their EA/ED acceptances? Would QB status hurt an applicant in this regard: if the offer is non-binding and the student's estimated FA package is going to fall several thousand dollars short of the QB College Match scholarship might a school be more likely to defer the student to RD?</p>
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@outlooker, my admittedly anecdotal experience after going through the process.
I don’t think QB status is a hindrance at all. My son ended up being wait listed by five QB schools (Washington and Lee, Swarthmore, Stanford, Chicago, and Notre Dame) and accepted by two through RD (Amherst and Northwestern). The ease of applying RD through QB was probably the difference in him choosing to apply to all of the above schools with the exception of Notre Dame and Northwestern. I think it’s possible that QB hurt him a little with Notre Dame - only because I don’t know that he worked hard enough on his Notre Dame essays.
He probably wouldn’t have bothered applying to Amherst without QB. They ended up paying for him to visit and are one of his three finalists.
Chicago and Notre Dame will move your application to EA/ED if you don’t get matched. I think Northwestern will as well if they plan on admitting you ED. The other QB partner schools waived essays, application fees, etc. for QB students who weren’t matched. Some of that may have been to help their stats, but it definitely is an easy way to apply to multiple schools.
The FA packages, by the way, were extremely generous…not full rides, but close enough that what isn’t covered was less than the $5500 limit per year for federal student loans.