Early Decision Dilemma

scarsta
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:58:30 +0000

Take the following situation:

You are selected under the Early Decision in an institution to which Applied under the ED plan, and are given full tuition grant and loan opporunities.

Now, you think that other “Big” schools might also accept you.

Can you pay the deposit slip and still not attend a school to which you got accepted under Early Decision, and attend another school to which you applied under the Regular Decision? (You pay the deposit slip for the guarantee that you will have a place to study, but you are willing to loose the money if you are accepted from a better institution-- is that possible?)

Is there any way you can ask for an extension of the time that you are given from the ED university to confirm that you are coming (so that you get the time to review all the decisions from all the universities that you applied to under RD)?

Please help me with all of these. I am really stuck.