Fairfield’s official date (last year, anyway) is “before January 1.” They released decisions December 15.
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Yep and many just deferred the ea kids which is super frustrating
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UMass Amherst releases “in waves.” Last year their first release was later than in past years (but still in December) and many people didn’t get their answer until late January.
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Thanks. (SCU has been in December for as long as I can remember. Three of my older kids applied EA there; website still says late Dec.)
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As long as it comes out last you can withdraw.
Never apply ED1 or ED2 if it is not in your top3, and preferably not unless they are the #1 (or 2nd choice, for ED2).
Edit: unless you are saying the EA is announced before the ED2 comes out, so you can withdraw the ED2 if EA is a yes?
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SUNY Binghamton seems to historically for OOS high stats kids come out in December. UVM also says December. Fordham says by Dec 20 (these are the three S24 is applying for). Should know all around the Ed notification date and before ed2
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The definition of ED!
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if EA decision comes out end of Jan, and ED2 decision is mid Feb, then I guess we can potentially widthdraw ED2. Didn’t think that was a possibility.
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My D24 has changed her mind about potential majors more times than I can count since the beginning of junior year. Like she has listed at least a dozen possibilities and they aren’t even clustered in the same academic areas --I mean that she has talked about everything from the humanities to the social sciences to STEM fields to really pre-professional degrees.
On paper, she “seems” quite similar to D22, but they are actually very different personalities in so many ways. I don’t think ED would work for D24 even if the FA piece didn’t make me nervous. Twelve majors in around the same number of months does not indicate a kid who is ready to commit to a binding decision right now! I just wish that she would make some decisions and pick either a restricted early action college or several non-restricted ones. The good news is that I think she is pretty much done with the common app except the supplementals.
That is a very good reminder. Thank you. I need to do the same. And to be honest, I have faith that it will all work out. Every kid is different (and I have two more coming up). Hopefully it won’t get harder with each!
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S24 is really struggling with his Common App essay. Im trying to be quietly supportive and not let my anxiety about it impact him, but I’m not sure how successful I am.
He has come up with a few topic ideas, and he hates all of them. He’s started writing several times and wants to trash it all. He is working on a topic now (which I haven’t read) but from what he is saying about it, I’m not sure it is going to work out either. Ugh.
He is making progress over all (and I’m making progress on my guidance counselor duties), but everything is going much more slowly than we hoped. He has 9 schools (mostly OOS publics) he has EA deadlines for in the next 4-6 weeks.
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Yes, I can relate as D24 is the same way. History, Geoscience, Spanish, Latin American Studies, Psychology, Chemistry. All over the map, which is why she is most interested in SLACs. Thanks for your comment, it’s nice to find others who can relate.
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I’d say we are in roughly the same boat. The main essay is done but the supplements are a real slog. Recycling one essay from one school to another isn’t nearly as easy as our guidance counselor suggested.
Many more of my son’s schools are EA than my daughter’s were five years ago. That means we’ll be mostly done by November 15th. Just writing that gives me hives …
Is he done with any supplemental essays that are needed? For some kids these are easier as you are answering a a question than trying to write a personal statement that is suppose to show who you are. So what we have started doing is start working on supplementals along with the common app essay.
The above seems to help S24 and it feels like he is moving forward.
Another thing that seems to help our S24 who does better when the deadline are closer is we have created multiple deadlines for various task example Common app draft 1 by 10/2, Supplemental essay 1 draft 1 by 10/5 common App draft 2 by 10/9 and so on.
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I agree with this, though, in general the EA schools (especially the slew of great publics in this category) aren’t especially known for yield protection or don’t do it at all. IOW the point you make, while true for the applicant, may not be so interesting to the schools.
As for your second question, could be some comparing going on, though in general they’re not likely to get through reading 100% of the RD apps by the time they need to make their (mid/late Jan or mid Feb) EA admissions decisions. If they’re comparing, then the easier/top kids get in EA, and any EA kids on their bubble maybe get deferred to RD?
We met with D24’s college counselors a few days ago; the meeting went well, she is on track mostly, maybe a little behind on her supplementals so I think she’s now motivated to grind those out this weekend. Her list is still evolving a bit, two schools came off and two were added. They strongly encouraged her to schedule interviews wherever possible, as she is personable and well-spoken. She hopped on that suggestion right away and has 3 interviews on her calendar now, the first one this morning. One of the colleges she’s interested in had all interview slots booked until December 7, so if your kiddo is interested in interviewing, probably good to book now before slots fill up.
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Where is she looking?
It sounds like she is really doing great keeping on task! That’s fantastic.
Did your daughter schedule interviews before applying? Where do you find info for interview slots?
You can usually schedule them any time (before or after app). You can find info on the schools’ admissions pages, or sometimes on the visit pages of their website. My daughter has done one and has a couple more scheduled. Not every school offers them, and some you can only schedule after they’ve received your app.
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