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<p>Then she did something wrong. According to Brown’s website about ED, “If you are accepted to Brown, you will receive your Financial Aid award at the same time as you receive your admission decision in the mail.”</p>
<p>And if she didn’t receive it on time, she had more than 3 months to get it. </p>
<p>I’m only following up on this for future applicants who may be concerned that this will happen to them. If you apply ED, your financial aid package (or, an estimate of it) will be received when you get your acceptance, and not four months later.</p>
<p>As for this: "I knew at least 4 kids in my senior class who got in ED at schools and still followed through with RD. It’s a rule with no enforceable penalty. The process has become kind of a joke in that regard. "</p>
<p>Well, fine. It’s like speeding, many do it but if you get caught it’ll cost you. Guidance counselors are NOT supposed to send out transcripts, etc., to other schools if students got accepted ED, and if they are discovered by colleges that they are doing this on a regular basis, those schools could be blacklisted. Students’ acceptances at all schools could be rescinded if they are caught. I don’t want to get into an argument about it, but bottom line is that it’s unethical behavior, and not something that should be encouraged.</p>