Rolling Schools/Safeties

fallenchemist
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:27:48 +0000

soozievt:

However, the concept behind ED is making a commitment to attend. If you care to compare FA packages, you should not be applying ED.

I don’t think this is right. The one explicit “out” of an ED the schools themselves acknowledge is financial considerations. The more correct statement would be that the concept behind ED is making a commitment to attend if you can afford to attend. Just because there might be financial uncertainty is no reason to give up the advantage of ED. That would essentially be discriminating against and certainly disadvantaging those of lesser means.

Now I have just been commenting on the reality of the situation as it exists. I personally think that other than the stress it would cause the students, it might make more sense for every school to be on the same schedule. Perhaps the stress would even be less of a factor since everyone would be in the same boat. But that won’t happen, so…