<p>i have several friends at rochester who say that the school is desperately trying to get top students to enroll. I think only around 20-25% of the students that are accepted to rochester actually enter. Allowing students to change their application status to ED seems like an attempt to get more top students to commit early.</p>
<p>Yes, Rochester has been attemtping to lure top students with merit scholarships just like other private schools int the US News top 50 (Tulane, Emory, WUSTL, Vanderbilt, etc...).
Rochester is an excellent school and if it were in a different location might be more popular and have a higher yield.</p>
<p>Rochester has reached out to top students with merit $ and has recently been aggressively recruiting IB students with their new scholarship program. At my interview, they informed me of this initiative.</p>
<p>Rochester remains at the top of my list but I will wait and see how the decsions pan out in the next several months.</p>
<p>I got that letter also</p>
<p>yeah its just an ED 2 option, that you will find at every other p schools</p>
<p>Is it just me or does trying to get kids to switch to ED feel sleezy.</p>
<p>college proces in general is just a sleezy business :P</p>
<p>I wouldn't go so far as sleazy. They are obviously gaming the system in the same way that students game the system. If a student was rejected ED from his top school, it's possible that he or she would consider an EDII to Rochester if that university was high on their list. they are "reminding" the student that this is an option. The key here is the date the letters went out.....coming right after EDI acceptances and rejections.</p>
<p>I have received similar e-mails/mail from the following schools:</p>
<p>Wash U
Emory
Tulane
Colgate
Wesleyan U
GWU</p>
<p>These are all fine schools. I do not consider any of these schools sleazy.
This is a reality in the admissions process.</p>
<p>I agree. I frankly wish that ED did not exist but (a topic for another thread) but the reality is that it does. I have no problem with a college reminding a student about the options they have.</p>
<p>i think it's a nice idea - both sides get a benefit. the student has a college to go to a couple months earlier than usual, and the college has a student that will definitely attend. i would switch, if it weren't for my mother, who wants me to see where i get accepted first</p>
<p>The thing is most of the other schools you pointed out don't send the form to everyone (after I filled my name in I realized this was the switch to ED), they just send the ad. The one thing I cannot understand is why rochester would not just say "we have ed1 and ed2" in their brochures ect.</p>
<p>I think ED II is new at Rochester</p>
<p>I told them that I wanted to change RD to EDII now I don't know. I do want to go there, but I really should have thought financally..maybe I do not want to go there... :(</p>
<p>Why did you switch to ED II?</p>
<p>I was not getting anywhere with any other colleges and it was almost like I got desperate, but not too desperate because UR is a good school. It's just now that I think about the costs and all that...it's going to be tough.</p>
<p>im relatively sure u can still get good finaid, even if u get binding admissions. first off, one thing many ppl don't realize is that ED is not binding in all cases - if u get cheated out of finaid, u can do this fancy thing where u don't have to go anymore. plus, i actually knew someone that got in early, and was able to wriggle more finaid out of the college that it originally gave. so don't loose hope.</p>
<p>Bklyn2Cornell, you seem to just be asking for reassurance that this means you've been accepted. Don't count your chickens before they hatch - this is not an all an indicator that you have been accepted. Good luck, though.</p>
<p>Btw: The ED2 policies exist at a lot of schools that are considered not-quite-first-tier. They're useful for people who didn't make their first choice ED1 to an Ivy. I go to Wesleyan, which has an ED2 policy, and there are plenty of students who love it here, who applied ED2 after being deferred or rejected from schools like Brown and Columbia originally. These schools want to make it known that up until the last minute, you can still change your application from RD to ED2, which as someone said, can be useful for both parties.</p>
<p>dang, my posts are all gone! i thought i wrote something in all the u of r threads!!</p>
<p>well, i changed from rd to ED2 and I got in with not stellar stats of 1230/1810, 16/309, 4.1w</p>
<p>omg!! the 60 second rule can be so f-in annoying</p>
<p>Wow, once u switch to ED II now, they give you your decision now?</p>