<p>Applying ED the last grades the colleges see are your 2nd semestar junior year grades, but what about regular decision?</p>
<p>they see your junior year grades, but they also see your first semester senior year grades. that is the advantage to applying rd. if you had a not so hot junior year, then you can do well 1st semester senior year, and while that may not make up for a bad junior year, it can do nothing but help.</p>
<p>RD usually wants a midyear report, and thus they see grades from first semester senior year. Like the other poster said, just reiterating.</p>
<p>think of it this way...you'll get a bag of coal if your grades slack</p>