<p>My parents divorced this year and my dad isn’t paying my tuition at all due to an unstable job so my mom is alone in dealing with my tuition. Emory took both of my parent’s salaries into account instead of 1 so they didn’t really offer us enough aid and my mom refuses to pay with the aid they gave us. I was accepted EDII and I was wondering if I backed out due to financial reasons, does Emory take it extremely seriously and hunt you down or something or are they generally okay with it?</p>
<p>I would assume that if you contacted an admissions officer and explained the situation, the university would cooperate with you. Just a guess, but I really don’t think you’ll have too much trouble.</p>
<p>if you sitll want to attend, you should contact the financial aid office and tell them your situation.</p>
<p>if it’s still not enough. no worries. financial obligation is an acceptable reason to back out of ED.</p>
<p>Emory will eventually redo the financial aid package based on your new situation. I’m not sure how the timing works. You should ask them directly, and I think sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>But the problem is that it’s not a new situation, it was the original situation when we applied to aid and we put in a note for it too and they still didn’t provide us with enough aid. Actually, our first estimate had more aid and then they took out $2k in the final version…</p>
<p>I am sure Emory cares more about your father’s ABILITY to pay and not his UNWILLINGNESS to pay. They are expecting your parents to contribute based on their ability, so if your dad is just saying “I refuse to pay your tuition at all” then it seems like that is your problem and not Emory’s. After all, the primary responsibility for meeting college costs rests with you and your family.
Write an appeal letter to the office of financial aid with the details of your financial situation, and remember to write a specific dollar amount that you will need in grants to make an Emory education affordable for you and your family. But don’t be surprised if they say that your dad is still expected to contribute based on his tax returns you sent to them for his 2010 and 2011 income.</p>
<p>Chasfine: you can withdraw if you want to. Honestly, they will just pull a full pay off the waitlist to replace your spot…no worries!</p>
<p>Where will you go?</p>
<p>rodney, is it really that easy to withdraw like that? if it is for financial reasons… and I could just go to my state university or this other private university that is offering me almost full tuition in aid</p>
<p>ED is binding, but if you read the fine print on the common app, financial reasons are the main “out” especially if your in-state public is your other option…</p>
<p>It is not an optimal situation, but stuff happens…not your fault; they can’t force you to go where you can’t pay…</p>
<p>One of the requirements of getting accepted ED was to withdraw all your other college applications. You didn’t do that apparently. I read once on CC that if you withdraw from your ED school after making your enrollment deposit, your ED school finds out what other school you chose to go to, and they notify that school of your immoral/unethical act, and then that school rejects you. It may not be true, though… It’s just something I read on here once. Although it does sound slightly plausible since you, your parent, and your counselor all agreed to the ED Agreement when you applied to Emory. Not trying to discourage you.</p>
<p>I was already accepted to my state school when Emory’s ED result came out so there was no point in withdrawing? And it isn’t considered immoral/unethical if for financial reasons, only if you withdraw because you don’t feel like going anymore… I can’t possibly afford it anyways so how can they force me to go?</p>
<p>And it also says that you withdraw other applications after you accept the financial aid and the offer of admission. The financial aid wasn’t even enough in the first estimate and my mom and I were going to appeal but they said for us to wait until the final estimate came… which came after all my other acceptances to my backup schools anyways. The final estimate was even less than the original estimate which just made things worse.</p>
<p>Idk… All I know is that if you deposited before the March 1 deadline, which you seem to have did, you were supposed to withdraw all active college applications at the same time. Maybe not your state school application since they accepted you way before, but all the other ones.</p>
<p>I kinda have the same problem but I’m going to contact Emory on Monday</p>
<p>What do you think? Of course Emory can’t make you come to their school. That isn’t going to be the issue. Your high school counselor will be notified, and will discuss this with you. Some schools do not take this well as you could be affecting future ED applications to that school. </p>
<p>You seem to have a number of options. Reading your posts, it appears that in addition to the acceptance you got before your ED acceptance, you got other responses as well. And, yes, you should have withdrawn your app from the school that accepted you too. You did breach the contract.</p>
<p>What will happen? Probably nothing. But sometimes odd things happen when people do things like this. The world of college admissions is smaller than most people think. In my life, some odd coincidences and consequences have happened. All I can say about this is, shame on you.</p>
<p>This really isn’t my fault… it’s not that I don’t want to attend, it’s basically the fact htat my mom has already argued with the finaid office and our finaid advisor numerous times and they haven’t done anything to fix it… We honestly can’t afford it at this price and we expected better financial aid :/</p>