Agreement, but now my daughter isn’t sure she wants to apply
Ed2.
If she submits the application as a regular decision person, will the college see that I already signed the
Ed agreement. Her school will have to call to redesignate it as a regular decision. Will that hurt her chances of getting in at the school???
All she has to do is contact the admissions office and ask the to withdraw her ED application and place her into RD
But will it hurt her chances at the school. Her counselor also submitted – just as I did, the ED 2 agreement.
To add - it is her first choice school, but she now regrets not letting the decision play out
Testing for understanding:
It is her first choice school.
Did you run the net price calculator? Based on the estimate, is the school a financially feasible option for your family
Do you as a family support the ED application?
What has changed that your D no longer wants to commit to the school
You need to see how much of the freshman class is admitted ED. You must also look at the admissions rate of ED vs RD. The ED pool of candidates is smaller than RD so you may have a better chance of being admitted if she is in the range and has something that the school wants
I am confused. This is her first choice school but she does not want to apply ED2 because she wants to see how all of these decisions play out during RD?
It is her first choice, that is even a possibility, but she got in her head that she wants to let schools that are “super” reaches play out, but I know her chances of getting into those other schools are remote. . It would be much better for her to be realistic and use this as her ED2, but now that she is writing all the applications, she is ambivalent. I submitted the ED agreement, her counselor did also, but now she is having second thoughts. We haven’t submitted the whole application yet. I think it is the wisest thing, so does her counselor, but she is ambivalent and maybe unrealistic.
To clarify ( sorry)- your D has a bunch of super reach schools on her list and she wants to see if she gets in, and by applying ED2 to this other school, which is her first choice between her realistic schools, it means she may very well get in and she will never know if she gets into the super reaches?
If she is not 100% convinced that she wants to attend the ED2 school, and if she will always have “what if” lingering in her head, then she needs to email the ED2 school and ask them to switch to regular decision. As long as you could afford all of the possible schools, it needs to be her decision. I would suggest that she add some safeties just in case this ED2/ possible regular decision school and her mega reaches do not pan out.
Will pulling out of ED2 and entering the regular decision pool reduce her chances? I don’t know. She has to decide what she wants more: a stronger (?) chance of getting into a school she loves by applying ED2 - with the understanding that she will have “what if,” or the possibility of not getting into that school at all ( by switching to regular decision) but also having the chance to see if her mega reaches play out. She can’t have both…
agree largely with twogirls.
If it wasn’t the far and away first choice, and if you weren’t confident you had the money to pay, then this student and family had no business signing ED contracts. Nothing wrong with trying to compare schools and offers, but don’t promise ED if a person wants to compare.
While it may not be legally binding, the student and family have made a moral contract promising to attend if accepted. If uncertainty exists, of course the right thing to do is withdraw from Ed. Yes, that would show the student’s and family’s indecision, but doing what is right isn’t always easy.
It’s just very hard because when she saw this school - and she visited twice - she loved it and felt really at home there. It has a very strong ED preference. Her plan all along was to ED2 it, but now she wants to “see what happens,” but I’m worried she will lose her chance at this school if she “shows indecision” by switching to RD.
That might happen- I don’t know. If affordability is not an issue, this has to be your daughter’s decision- and she has to do it soon. If she gets in under ED2 then she has to go.
Just contact the college and ask that her application be moved to the RD decision pile. That is that.
Not sure why you are frettong over doing this. You won’t be the first…or last applicant to do so.
I agree with @thumper1. Adcoms don’t hold it against an applicant that the applicant switched from ED to RD. @sybbie719 is right about the fact that you may lose some potential benefit of being in the ED pool, but that’s not the same as thinking that the adcoms will look and see an ED agreement that was switched to RD and draw a negative conclusion from it.
Maybe this is her way of telling you she has cold feet about ED–even If if she loves the campus and feels at home there. I know so many kids who had a (non ED) “first choice” who in the end went an entirely different direction come May 1.
One other thing to think about is the time between mid Feb when she would hear about ED2 and Apr 1 when other decisions come out, time she could have relaxed and enjoyed with a positive ED2. Make sure she knows that could be the other side of ‘what if’ if she does not do ED2.
If you think your D will change her mind again, you could put off the decision a week or two. You could still submit for ED2 now and then change to RD in a couple weeks.
Is it really her first choice? If so it doesn’t make sense to “let things play out” with super reaches that she doesn’t like as much. Is it for bragging rights? Or would she choose those super reaches over her ED2 college? If she really prefers them, then she shouldn’t be applying ED anyway.
Odd man out here.
If she has any doubts at all about ED2, I would switch to RD.
That is not a realistic concern.
ED is a way for the colleges to lock in students to protect their yield and their financial aid budgets. It is a system that benefits the school way more than the student.
Do you even know whether there is a significant difference in admit rate between ED 2 and RD? The applications tend to come in at the same time, so the main thing is that the ED2 applicants probably get an earlier read.
Your daughter is telling you that she wants a chance to try for her reach schools… why deny her that?
OOps, mixed up a post