Merit Aid & Early Decision

sahmkc
Sat, 27 May 2017 14:00:19 +0000

I think it’s clear that applying ED at American greatly increases your chances of admittance, especially if you are a high stats applicant. If you applied ED, how did AU assure you that your chances for merit aid would not be affected? It’s really the one hang up my DH has about ED. He’s sure that they will give DS reduced merit or no merit if he applies ED. I think DS’s stats put him at great risk for being put into the category of seeing AU as a “fallback” school and being denied RD. AU is DS’s first choice GTown does not offer merit, so we didn’t even look at it because the NPC said we would be full pay at $72,000. GW is his second choice, because he just felt more at “home” on the AU campus.