Early Decision & Honors Weekend Scholarships?

financiallylost
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:34:24 +0000

I’m a current tech student and have a lot of experience with admissions and fin aid. ED when you’re relying on Financial Aid is definitely not the best idea. I’m not sure that they they give more fin aid to RD applicants. There are formulas for most grants so as long as you fit the criteria, you should get it. I’m not sure how scholarships work but I since they’re due late in admissions seasons, ED probably doesn’t have that much affect on whether you get the scholarship or not. In some cases, depending on the scholarship, they probably won’t even know you applied ED.

The more important thing to think about with applying early is that for the most part, you’re legally bound to attend, regardless of circumstances with money. If you can’t come up with the money through Tech, you’ll have to find out some other way. You’ll also have to withdraw your applications to other schools, so even if you did manage to get out of going to Tech, you’d be out of luck in where you’d go. So the safer option is to apply RD if you’re depending on aid to go to school here.