<p>Well I am “shooting craps” at the moment. I applied ED1 to GWU and it’s looking like I’m probably going to get it. I’m hoping that the selection board that met today will be reviewing my app so that I can know by beginning of December. GWU will respond by December 15. Now, here is the risky game that I am playing. If I get accepted into GWU but don’t get picked up for the scholarship there, I can appeal based on financial needs and there is a chance that I may be able to get out of the binding ED agreement. Granted, I’m still a nervous mess because this little game of craps has some big numbers involved…but I think that the odds are stacked in my favor so to speak. It helps that I’ve got three career military officers (navy, army, and airforce) all of them combat vets and one (navy) still active and deployed at the moment. If everything goes to hell in a hand basket, I’m hoping that I’ll have enough pull to fast talk my way out of it…</p>
<p>still…a risky game</p>
<p>EDIT: I might add that I signed the ED1 agreement form from <a href=“http://www.commonapp.org%5B/url%5D”>www.commonapp.org</a>, there is a clause in this contract that is not in the contract from the gwu.edu site that specifically states “this commitment is binding only if sufficient financial aid is offered”</p>
<p>sufficient financial aid, exactly what amount is considered sufficient is anyone’s guess but then again, that’s also the beauty of it because I can claim that I was not offered sufficient financial aid if it ever came down to that</p>