would you mind listing the EA schools?
Sure!
U of Maine
Ohio State
Ohio Wesleyan
Rhodes College
UGA
Clemson
U of South Carolina
College of Charleston
UNC - Chapel Hill
U of South Florida
U of Miami
And her 2 RD outstanding are Vanderbilt and Boston University. SC Resident.
Did you look at Alabama or Tulsa or schools that will blow your mind off with merit ? I see Maine on there…I know they do.
Congrats-- esp to UNC-- that’s a tough OOS admit.
Did you look at Alabama or Tulsa or schools that will blow your mind off with merit ? I see Maine on there…I know they do.
I feel like pretty much every school in the country was on the list at some point - ha!
Tulsa did not have the major and research opportunities that she wanted. And she was just anti-Alabama from the get-go. I told her that was fine as long as she found an alternate NMF school that was super generous with funding. UMaine is almost full COA for NMSF and USF is for NMF. Once she added those to the list we let all the other great NMF schools go as we figured you really only need 1!
If she gets into Vandy and you point her to Maine and nothing wrong with that but that’s where the parent/kid trouble starts.
Yes, my son’s college counselor at school caught his mistake in submitting Notre Dame’s application RD well before the Nov 1 deadline. She explained that he can submit it REA and still apply to all the private schools EA he was applying to. You just can’t apply ED anywhere. He was able to change the application type even tho it had already been submitted a week, since it was before the deadline.
Ugh, wish I had known this!
Our experience tells me to disagree with this suggestion. Our D23 has strong stats, nothing that really pops out or is spectacular in terms of profile or hooks, and is at a high school with a record of successful students at Villanova, applied there EA thinking of it as something of a “low target,” if such a thing exists, and was accepted. Likewise at Richmond, although her school sends very few apps that direction. Just one data point and perhaps she’s the exception to the rule. She also got deferred at a safety in EA, so I understand peoples’ puzzlement and the reason this thread exists, and accepted at one of her moderate reaches in EA (not applicable here, however, as there’s no ED there).
LMU takes a lower percentage of ED applicants than they do RD applicants. EA is apparently the highest percentage admit rate. I was digging into this recently after my kid was waitlisted in RD, something I had failed to do because the school wasn’t really high on her list and something she threw together at the last minute (evidently apparent to the school as well since they waitlisted her lol 
). Anyway I was surprised how few they take in ED.
we’re also a california family. perhaps my daughter’s experience (class of 21 high school, class of 25 college; social science/humanities majors) is instructive: because, as folks have noted, UC and CSU admissions are capricious, she wanted to take advantage of nonbinding EA and likes the PNW, she applied EA to LC (Lewis & Clark). she was accepted with 35K annual merit. (LC’s offer seemed to validate her as a UC candidate, since it would bring it within range of typical UC cost of attendance. is that how they calculate these things???) then she was accepted early to SDSU honors. her RD results: accepted Cal Poly SLO, UCD, UCSC, UCSD, UCB. waitlisted UCI, UCSB, UCLA. now attending UC berkeley.
Interesting she got into UCB but waitlisted at UCSB and UCI.
Sounds like a great student and hope she is having a great experience.
The unpredictability of the UC system. You hear about many students with the same results.
Yep! I know several cases of a student being waitlisted or rejected from all the UCs until getting that sweet and unexpected UC Berkeley admit on the last day! They really do operate independently!
So instructive! Thank you for sharing! Since I wrote that post above back in January, she’s luckily added more acceptances to the list and along quite similar lines to your D21–in at UCSC, UC Davis, Cal Poly SLO and CSU Long Beach as well as two privates: Lewis & Clark with $36K/year of merit that would bring it close to the cost of a UC, plus a “you’re in and we’ll tell you with what merit soon” from U of Puget Sound (we’ll find out how much next week when RD comes out for UPS). So it’s nice to feel wooed by them and have those options if she visits UCs/CSUs and decides big schools are too big. Waitlisted at LMU but honestly she wouldn’t have picked it over several of the admits she already has. Anxious to hear back from the rest of the UCs but already know she could be happy at one of the places she has in hand. Glad your daughter is enjoying Cal! We were just at Haas last night for the gymnastics meet vs. Stanford, Utah State, and OH State. So much fun!