How good is the financial aid at Duke?

vonlost
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:28:05 +0000

“If you can’t afford a school you get into ED, you can pull out.”

This is correct. Duke uses the Common Application. Here is the Common Application ED rule:

Should a student who applies for financial aid not be offered an award that makes attendance possible, the student may decline the offer of admission and be released from the Early Decision commitment.



https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf

It doesn’t say you have to ask permission of the school to pull out. Consider the alternative, that attendance is somehow compelled, and then the student is expelled when the EFC cannot be paid. It just doesn’t happen.