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<p>D got into her first choice school EA, but wasn’t completely sure until she made another visit after application season, so she filed a few more applications for schools that had the potential to be her first choice. </p>
<p>There was a certain sense of relief that she felt in getting waitlisted or rejected by those RD schools. The decision was done. After April 1, someone in her school started a humorous rejection commiseration group, and you really couldn’t be a full fledged participant in this important senior ritual unless there was actually a school that you didn’t get into!</p>