<p>@oldfort could speak more about Cornell admissions and what to do in terms of following up. </p>
<p>My gut feeling would be that if your D is a viable candidate for Cornell she will get in to Emory RD. My well qualified neighbor was declined at Cornell and accepted RD at Emory as one data point.</p>
<p>I would agree that RD is the way to go, as it sounds like your D still has a shot at her 1st choice. My S was lucky and got ED to Wash U. </p>
<p>If she still wants to go to to the ED1 college, I wouldn’t commit to an ED2. </p>
<p>What would she do if she got into Emory? Would she be happy dropping Cornell? Because she won’t find about admission at Cornell until after that.</p>
<p>From reading your post, I think that your D would have regrets not to give Cornell another shot in RD. Whether or not she gets in there, she WILL get in to other schools, so long as you have a mix of schools on the list, so she shouldn’t have to give up hope just yet.</p>
<p>I would do RD.</p>
<p>ED at these highly selective schools always seems like a student’s best bet, but to the non hooked student, are they? Do any schools give specific data regarding ED1 vs ED2? My cynical self thinks ED 2 acceptances are athletes who didn’t gain acceptance to their 1st choice school. </p>
<p>That’s not my impression, @twocollegekids . I think ED2 is for kids who didn’t get in to their ED1 school and have a strong second choice. From the schools’ point of view, it is to lock in as many students as possible to improve their yield. </p>
<p>Cornell ILR used to defer a lot of kids and also waitlist a number and in addition to that offer students a chance to transfer to Cornell in a year with a satisfactory year at any college. I don’t know what the numbers are for each of those categories. My son was so deferred, but then cleared the waitlist and got an accept offer late in the summer, but by then he was already committed to going to another school. Cornell was not a top choice for him anyways. But it was interesting how the options to go there continued longer than with other schools. </p>
<p>Is there info available as to the % of those deferred being accepted? Do they get accepted at the same rate as the rest of the RD pool? If her chances are half ot those in that pool, I would probably move on to Emory as ED2 and see if Cornell offers a transfer option, which I suspect they might, as I’ve seen this done a number of times. </p>
<p>This is if she is willing to shelf Cornell for now, give Emory a chance if accepted and consider transferring to Cornell if she still wants to go there as a sophomore. </p>
<p>“I think ED2 is for kids who didn’t get in to their ED1 school and have a strong second choice.”</p>
<p>Right. I have a couple of clients this year for whom Tufts was a very close second choice, and they’d be thrilled to go there. They are applying EDII after being deferred at first-choice Ivies.</p>
<p>@Hanna so they gave up on their first choice, even though there is still a possibility of getting in? </p>
<p>How clear is her second choice, really? My D did ED1 (admitted) but when we were waiting we discussed the possibility of an ED2. She didn’t have a clear favorite second choice – there were several schools she would have been thrilled to attend if ED1 didn’t work out – so her plan was to just submit RD apps to those schools. </p>
<p>If your daughter does ED2 and is then admitted to her first choice, will she still be happy to go to her second pick? If so, it’s worth the risk, but if she will be unhappy I wouldn’t risk it.</p>
<p>brantly: yes, because they liked the second-choice school almost as much and wanted to maximize the odds of gong to a top-2 choice.</p>
<p>Umm…we are talking Cornell ILR and the candidate is a NYS resident. For those of you who don’t know, ILR is one of the “land grant” parts of Cornell and the tuition for NYS residents is a heck of a lot lower than Emory’s. So, I think mom and dad’s money factors into this decision.</p>
<p>If Emory is need blind and the net cost calculator brings it down close to Cornell for this family, that’s one thing. However, if your family isn’t going to get need based fin aid, I suspect there’s a whopping difference in cost. In those circumstances, I’d be really reluctant to pass up the chance of going to Cornell. </p>
<p>a few years ago, I happened upon the EDII stats for Emory and they were (surprising to me) not much different thant RD admit stats. (In comparison, EDI at Emory was a significant boost.)</p>
<p>While the numbers may have changed, I would not recommend EDII anywhere after an ED deferral. (But then I like need-based aid, and EDII should consider themselves full pay.)</p>
<p>@jonri, well the Cornell contract colleges are certainly lower tuition for NYS residents. I guess “heck of a lot” is in the eye of the beholder, though.</p>
<p>The Cornell contract colleges have a COA of $47.5K for NYS residents. Emory has a COA of $61.3K (Oxford College of Emory has a COA of $54.7K).</p>
<p>“a few years ago, I happened upon the EDII stats for Emory and they were (surprising to me) not much different thant RD admit stats.”</p>
<p>Naturally, the unrealistic weaker students are going to show up more in EDII vs. EDI.</p>
<p>PT, I didn’t look up the actual cost, so thanks. Still, I think the difference is big enough that if ILR was her first choice, I’d be tempted to wait, especially since ILR is NOT a school that just defers everyone not admitted ED. </p>
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<p>@Hanna I don’t understand this. Would you mind explaining? Wouldn’t EDII include students who may have been competitive for an even more selective school and tried that ED1 but when they were unsuccessful they tried EDII at a less competitive school?</p>