As you’re deciding whether to apply Early Decision or Early Action, you might be wondering how the colleges may respond to your application. Click here to learn more about what Early Decision and Early Action actually mean! Click here for some help in deciding if you should apply ED or EA. So here are the … Read more
You don’t need us to tell you…..it’s been a heck of a year. And if you have a high school senior, it may get worse before it gets better. We’re not talking about COVID here. We’re talking about college admissions (because that’s all our team thinks about – all day, every day). We’re starting to … Read more
Early college decisions are on the way! Students who organized early, researched their college list and wrote all of the required essays could learn the earliest of their college decisions from the more selective colleges this week. A lot of our clients are in this position because we push them to prepare and submit early. … Read more
As a follow up to past posts about college early admission plans, we’ll recap what each of them means, and then share some case studies to illustrate when Early Action and Early Decision were good or bad choices for students in specific situations. Early Decision Early Decision (ED) is a binding agreement that indicates to … Read more
CONGRATULATIONS – you’ve been admitted to your top choice college! If you were admitted under a binding Early Decision plan, part of the deal when you applied was that you agreed to withdraw all of your other applications. You should do that as soon as possible. Like within 7 days of being admitted to your … Read more
We’ve posted information about the differences between Early Decision, Early Action, Restricted (or Single Choice) Early Action, Rolling Admission and Regular Decision in past articles, but if you aren’t quite sure of what these mean, this post is for you! Early Decision Binding contract. Student, school counselor and parents sign an agreement saying that … Read more
Before answering the question, “should I apply Early Decision,” we need to get our terminology clear: Early Decision is a BINDING contract between the student and the school. If you are admitted, you are going, no ifs, ands or buts (the one exception to this is if you are not offered a financial aid package … Read more
A good number of colleges with EA and ED plans (remember the difference? I talk about it here) have released their admission decisions. As with last year, the early pools at many highly-selective colleges are increasingly competitive, sometimes with acceptance rates just as competitive as the regular decision pool. For example, Georgetown University in Washington … Read more
Did you hear that? That’s the sound of pure joy – the sound of the student who was admitted to her first choice college – the college whose binding Early Decision application she submitted on November 1. But that other sound you hear in the background – that sound of confusion and frustration? That’s the … Read more
I posted this short video in which I talk about the difference between Early Decision (BINDING) and Early Action (not binding) a few months back, but now that it’s October, students and parents are looking more closely at these options for college admission. This image below shows the differences between the various types of admission … Read more