<p>…if the ED acceptance rate is lower than the regular acceptance rate? My stats aren’t great so i don’t think applying ED would be worth it if my chances are lower for some schools.</p>
<p>If the ED rate really is lower (which is kind of shocking), it’s definitely not worth it to apply. Plus, there are several downsides to applying ED; if you do get in, you’ll be locked into the school and you have little/no control over your financial package.</p>
<p>Actually ^^^ is incorrect. Many schools now will allow you to breach contract if you are unsatisfied with your financial aid package. Make sure to read the schools information clearly about this. No school can force you to attend, but you may have to pay a fine if they are really picky about it. </p>
<p>If there is only one school you wan to apply ED to and your starts aren’t that great, just do it anyways because if you are rejected ED you would be rejected RD. It can only help.</p>
<p>What school has a lower ED acceptance rate?</p>
<p>I think Carnegie Mellon’s ED rate was much lower than its RD rate</p>
<p>I was kinda shocked to see it as well.</p>
<p>^^I don’t think ZooeyKing is correct.</p>
<p>Many schools will allow you to breach your contract if they do not “meet your financial need.” If they make your Cost of Attendance equal to your EFC, they will consider that they “met your financial need." Many people’s EFCs are much higher than they can really afford. So, for example, if your EFC is 36k a year (which is not unusual for even the low end of “upper middle class” peeps), and the total cost of the school is 50k a year, then they could give you 14k a year and say they’ve met your financial need! You have now agreed to attend a school that will cost you 36k a year – and even more if they consider LOANS of 14k as “meeting your financial need.”</p>
<p>Really. Unless things have changed in the past year (perhaps they have), then schools will not allow you to breach contract if you’re “unsatisfied” with your financial aid package. They’ll only allow you to breach contract if they don’t “meet your need.” Those are two different things.</p>
<p>And breaching a contract that you, your parents, and your guidance counselor sign off on should be considered a serious offense – ethically and morally, if not otherwise.</p>
<p>What’s the point of ED, from the school’s perspective, if it only takes you “not being satisfied” to break the contract? Everyone who wants to gamble for supposedly better odds of ED would simply sign up and then break their contracts, claiming a lack of satisfaction. One should still feel social pressure, if not legal pressure, to keep their end of a bargain. Right?</p>