Early Decision and Financial Aid

speedo
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:47:28 +0000

In some cases even if you are low income and would like to compare
packages it still makes sense to apply ED. If your scores are say 1250 to
1350, GPA around 3.5, you’re probably not getting in to the elite lacs
RD. You’re best shot is to visit and then apply ED. You’ll probably have a
decent shot to get in and get a better fin aid package than you would
at your next level of schools. It is, of course, helpful if you can get some
assurances from the fin aid people that they’re not going to dump more
than 25 grand in loans on you. That can be hard to do. Unfortunately, the
way the system is set up, it’s very difficult to get into the elites without
going ed