No real penalty for applying to multiple schools Early Decision or SCEA?

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1. Require the NPC to be run, and save the results. Then the actual financial aid application and offer can be compared with the NPC run afterward.</p>

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<p>That won’t work. People will just run it with fake info and then the later real results will be different.

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<p>It will work if the NPC input and results are saved for comparison with the actual financial aid application. Here are the cases that exist if the student is admitted ED:</p>

<p>(1) NPC input matches FAFSA and CSS Profile (if used) input:
(a) Actual financial aid offer matches NPC output => ED binding, no exception.
(b) Actual financial aid offer falls short of NPC output => “insufficient financial aid” exception allowed to back out of ED.</p>

<p>(2) NPC input does not match FAFSA and CSS Profile (if used) input => ED binding, no exception.</p>

<p>Putting teeth into it means collecting the enrollment deposit along with the application fee for ED applications. The enrollment deposit is refunded if either the applicant is not admitted ED, or case (1)(b) above applies.</p>