cookie4you

im thinking of applying ED but my financial status hinders me from doing so. do you guys know if they would let me drop if i could not afford it at all? cus i know columbia does something like that....

crzy2rite

This is only to my knowledge....ED is like a contract and if you are accepted, they expect you to attend and assume that you have thought it all the way through and decided that nothing will keep you from attending if accepted. I didn't know that Columbia had something that allowed you to apply elsewhere after ED acceptance, but to my understanding, ED is binding and applying elsewhere after that is not a good idea

cory123

maybe...def not early

daveb

I'm pretty sure you aren't allowed to drop an accepted ED with anyone. ED is also a way they can screw you on financial aid, because once you're accepted you HAVE to go, and they don't have to give you as much money.

guguru

not really true. Go to collegeboard.com, and look at the acceptance rates and such for colleges. For the early decision section, there's usually a discrepancy between number accepted ED and number attending ED. It can be due to financial aid, if there's no way at all someone can attend (I believe so at least). But those are just a few cases.

daveb

I mean, I guess if you absolutely cannot go, that's a different story. But when you apply ED, you sign a contract that says you can pay (though you may need financial aid) and you agree to going if you are accepted.

It'd be interesting to find out how people get out of the bind. Does collegeboard list reasoning for the drop?

manamaniac

for most schools, you can break the binding ED commitment if the financial aid awarded to you upon acceptance is not sufficient. i'm sure that this accounts for a great deal of the "discrepancy" that guguru is speaking of.

rence

ED right here.