<p>We came up with a long list junior year, as grades, test scores, awards (a lot of awards are given junior/senior year), ECs(leadership role), start to come in, we continued to refine the list. We went from 20+ to top 5, and 1 ED. We were able to finalize the list by having D2 finish with all her testing and college visits by end of Junior year. </p>
<p>D2 is done with her first draft of common application, first week of Aug she will start working on her essays for her ED/EA schools. Her senior fall semester, she won´t be taking tests or travel, so all she will working on will be her RD essays.</p>
<p>With D1, she only worked on her ED application, when she was deferred she had to write 20+ essays for 10+ RD schools over the winter holiday, and that was stress.</p>