ED - when to withdraw other college apps?

GeminiMom
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:02:54 +0000

woody – both my daughters (2012) were accepted to their ED schools. Both received financial aid awards within 2-10 days of their acceptances. I believe both schools named a specific deadline by which the award must be accepted. One of the acceptance letters clearly indicated that all other RD applications needed to be withdrawn pursuant to the ED agreement we had signed. My kids accepted both offers well in advance of the required response dates and withdrew their ED applications shortly thereafter.

The nature of the ED commitment is that the student agrees to enroll if accepted and is only supposed to decline if they cannot afford to attend. ED is not supposed to be used to make FA comparisons or to try to negotiate a better FA package.

Hope this helps!