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This is a good advice generally, but NOT when it comes to applying ED to a college with $50k/year cost against your parents’ will.</p>
<p>Well, obviously the OP should not and cannot apply ED against his/her parents’ will. However, that’s not the same as just giving up and saying “parents know best.” I support the suggestions made upthread on how to convince OP’s parents of Cornell ED as a valid choice… if none of that works, obviously OP has no choice at all. But fight to the end and DON’T just assume that your parents are right. (From personal experience: if I listened to my parents about college, I’d have become just another CC prestige-whore applying to all Ivies and no LACs.)</p>
<p>spiralcloud - Remarkably good advice has been offered above … really REALLY good advice. Please take a couple days away, and then return and re-read this thread. </p>
<p>PS, are you familiar with the phrase ‘Pyrrhic Victory?’</p>
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<p>I thought this post was on point until this part. “Better deal?” These parents are getting ready to pay 200K+, I hardly think the OP is in a position to be negotiating with them. </p>
<p>The OPs best shot is to come from a place of reason, stay far away from anything that sounds like a threat (ie doing a poor job on an application) and go from there.</p>
<p>I think it might help if the guidance counselor explained to your parents that Princeton is a long shot for anyone and everyone, and that at Cornell, applying ED helps quite a bit. Maybe the gc could even tell your parents about students who have stats as good as yours who did not get into any of their ivy league choices.</p>
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<p>Way more than that. In particular, it looks at *your high school *and the colleges that *your high school students *applied to, and the acceptance/rejection stats of those students.</p>
<p>In other words, it’s an awesome tool to see how you compare to your peers at your high school.</p>
<p>Apply regular decision and if you get it, talk to your parents about why they do not want you to go.</p>