Colleges follow Common App lists closely, no fancy forensics needed. Once added, they start sending marketing material to the student.
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Yes, I wasnât responding to OP I was talking about something different. I am just asking whether denying an ED acceptance will affect your chances at another school in RD.
You wouldnât be âdenying an ED acceptanceâ, you would be declining the ED acceptance and breaking the binding contract. I really donât think schools are sharing this info, but I do know Ms Fretwellâs comments led to a DOJ investigation that we havenât heard anything about for a long time.
If you think there is a good chance you would need to break the ED contract for financial reasons if you get accepted, why would you choose to apply there? A different strategy might make more sense.
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I think you are talking about something different. Many people on this board talk about yield management.
If someone is a 4.0, 1600 SAT and an overall great profile, why are they applying EA or RD to Case Western or Miami, etc. Some think they might get turned down or deferred because the school assumes they applied ED elsewhere and doesnât want to accept them only to have them not attend.
But not everyone applies ED. Their parents donât allow it or they donât want to be bound.
I get the deferral part in this case - a school defers hoping if someone got in somewhere ED, theyâd then withdraw and not hurt the yield. At the same time, the school would lose an applicant for their #s.
But personally I donât think applying ED somewhere hurts you anywhere else (except for that you can only have one ED at a time and thus other schools in EA or RD might have a lesser chance than that schools ED program).
Basically, I think you are overthinking.
I think the question to ask is if the financial situation does change significantly, will the ED school reconsider any aid to make the school affordable in the new reality?
What does âdenying admission to and ED acceptanceâ mean? Are you saying if a school rejects the applicant in the ED round it will hurt them with other schools? If so, that is false.
Or are you saying if the student is accepted in the ED round and declines the acceptance, there will be consequences? Based on the second sentence of your post, I think thatâs it. The implications here are more nuanced, but this is not responsive to the OP (and there are many posts on this board about the implications of â and options for â declining an ED acceptance).
The OPâs question is, what harm is there in switching an application from ED consideration to RD consideration?
Others have noted, the student may be giving up on an admissions boost. For schools that care a lot about demonstrated interest (Tulane, American, etc.), it could be pretty consequential.
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This is a tangent and it does not answer or serve the OP, who is asking about moving an open application from a schoolâs ED round to its RD round. The OP was not asking about declining an ED acceptance.
Yes, I was responding to someone else who said there is no obligation to attend an ED school and you can withdraw based on financial reasons, so I responded because I thought that was wrong (it is not). I am new to this website so I thought this was a public forum, I didnât realize all responses had to answer OPâs question alone.
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First of all, welcome. Secondly, it is a public board. We (ahem I) do have a tendency to get sidetracked, though.
Letâs put it this way: if someone posted, âhey, which is better: The Godfather Part I or The Godfather Part II,â and you say âGoodfellas,â it might be time start or join a thread about Goodfellas.
welcome @pineapple121! thank you for posting.
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If he hasnât actually applied yet, I donât think it would hurt his chances by applying RD instead of ED.
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Safest thing to do is not apply ED.
Do they have EA or non-binding ED 2?
No.