ED or not?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm looking at Virginia Tech for Engineering and would like to ED - what do you think? Would I be better off applying regular or go for ED?</p>

<p>3.5 GPA
School doesn't rank (I know, how stupid)
SAT's - 660 Math, 590 English
AP Tests not worth showing but have AP Chemistry, Physics, Calc (A/B) with A's and B's as grades.
Engineering - 4 years in high school (Project Lead the Way) - My class is first year to have full four years.</p>

<p>EC's
Applied and accepted to Leadership Academy in my State which started with a week at Outward Bound and continues my senior year.
Camp Counselor - Starting as a camper, LIT, CIT, Junior Counselor and expect to be asked back as Senior Counselor for next summer at YMCA Camp.
Employed as a skating instructor/rink guard during winter and lifeguard during summer.</p>

<p>Sports:
Varsity Football Junior Year (played all four years)
Rugby three years - possible Captain Senior Year</p>

<p>Other schools looking at:</p>

<p>Georgia Tech
RPI
UDelaware
UConn
Colorado State
Clarkson
Drexel</p>

<p>but Tech is my number one, What do you think? Thanks!</p>

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<p>If you know that VT is your number one choice and you know that if you are accepted, you’ll be able to pay for it, then I don’t see why not</p>

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<p>but do you think i can get in - my concern (or my parents concern) is that if i don’t get ed, will my chances lessen for getting regular acceptance?</p>

<p>from what i’ve been told, my chances of getting $$ as on OOS are slim to none so it wouldn’t matter if i went binding or not - if anyone thinks otherwise, let me know.</p>

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<p>Theoretically, applying ED will give you a small admissions “boost”. So you’re likely to have a higher chance of getting in if you apply ED and your stats are up to Virginia Tech’s standards. Look up their average GPA & SAT scores and see if yours match. If your scores are below the 25th percentile, then you’re not likely to get in regular decision anyway (unless you have some sort of hook in your app).</p>

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<p>If they don’t accept you for ED, you’ll be deferred or rejected. If deferred, your profile won’t look any worse than if you had just submitted RD. There’s no reason to think that.</p>

<p>Frankly you can submit (hopefully) great first semester Senior year grades to them to boost your file.</p>