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Now if I apply ED and get accepted...I'm forced to go there right even if it's very hard to pay for?"
No. Here are the ED instructions from the Common App:
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Should a student who applies for financial aid not be offered an award that makes attendance possible, the student may decline the offer of admission and be released from the Early Decision commitment.
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https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/..._Agreement.pdf
This means that if the FA offer is insufficient to support attendance (YOUR decision, not theirs), you tell them thanks but no thanks and apply RD elsewhere. But before saying no, talk to the school to see if they can do better. Remember that if a school accepts an ED FA student, the school really, really wants the student.
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if you get accepted ED then other schools you've applied will withdraw your application"
Not true, but if the student accepts the ED FA offer, then the
student must withdraw apps to all other schools.