<p>Why does Wellesley offer this option? What is the significance of it...why WOULDN'T someone choose it?</p>
<p>Wellesley offers Early Evaluation so it can advertise Wellesley to the obvious admits for a whole month before admitting them. Admitted students like it because they get in earlier. It’s not fun for unlikelies who get rejected twice, and possibles who know they are borderline and the odds are against.</p>
<p>You can’t choose it if you are an international applying for financial aid a high school junior or you don’t have your stuff together early.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply EE, I applied RD. I just wasn’t very attracted to EE because I had heard that most of the people would get possibles. So it didn’t really seem like there was any benefit because if I got possible, then I wouldn’t know any more than I would if I had applied RD. Of course if you get a likely, then some people think it is worth it.</p>
<p>I applied EE. To me, since most of my apps were due Jan. 1 using the common app + supplement, it was very little extra work to apply for the earlier date, and I was attracted to the idea of possibly getting a decision in late February instead of late March. I was a likely candidate, so I suppose I have more positive feelings towards EE than someone else might. The only downside I can see is that if you apply EE and then get an unlikely or a possibly, it might make you nervous for the rest of your applications, especially if they are to schools of similar or even greater selectivity than Wellesley. And of course by that point it is generally too late to change course. Still, the downside of being a possibly doesn’t seem to me to be that great. I applied EA to Yale and was deferred, so it was pretty much the same thing except I had to wait 4 more months for a final decision instead of 1 more month, and I just took the mild disappointment and moved on (and was ultimately rejected, so I’m not speaking from a position of one for whom it all worked out in the end). To each their own, though.</p>