Decision help: Oxford or Columbia?

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<p>[Early</a> Decision - Can You Break an Early Decision Contract?](<a href=“http://youngadults.about.com/od/collegeprep/qt/Breakingbinding.htm]Early”>Learn about Early Decision for College Admissions)

An insufficiently generous financial aid package, for example, is not deemed grounds for breaking an Early Decision contract.

From the Common Application ED agreement:

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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<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf&lt;/a&gt;

Early Decision agreements are contracts.

They are factually not contracts; they are honor-system agreements.</p>