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<p>If that is the case, then a student may want to see if his/her high school’s counselors will tell him/her where past ED admits have backed out of ED agreements. Then remove those colleges from the application list, because it is likely that the student’s high school is on an auto-reject list for this reason.</p>
<p>Seems like what ED schools should do is require the ED applicants to run the NPC and sign off that they have seen the result (which is recorded for later comparison). Then if the college admits with a financial aid offer (based on the same family finance parameters) equal to or better than the NPC result, backing out can be viewed as a problem (but not if the actual financial aid offer is worse).</p>