Early Decision Policies

Early Decision is Binding

February 1, 2020

A parent on a free consultation — to be clear, a parent who was not our client but rather a prospective client — recently told us that her daughter was accepted to a college under its binding Early Decision policy. But her child has since had misgivings about the school …

Categories: Early Decision / Early Action

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DOJ Probes Early Decision Communications

April 12, 2018

The United States Department of Justice is investigating possible communications between certain elite liberal arts colleges that include the names of students who’ve been admitted to their institutions through binding Early Decision policies. To suggest that the Jeff Sessions-led DOJ has been active over this past year in investigating college …

Categories: College Admissions

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A Defense of Early Decision

April 25, 2017

There was an article yesterday in “The Dartmouth Review,” the conservative student publication at Dartmouth College once led by the likes of Laura Ingraham and Dinish D’Souza (they were once engaged) that essentially serves as a defense of Early Decision. Of course, the most often cited case against the merits …

Categories: Ivy League

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Early Decision is Binding

DOJ Probes Early Decision Communications

A Defense of Early Decision