Rolling Schools/Safeties

robinsuesanders
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:02:31 +0000

But presumably if School “X” was your dream school, they accepted you, and the FA package (if needed) was adequate, there would seem to be no reason to hestate.



The only problem is you have to determine * in isolation * whether the FA package is really adequate or not.

Every winter there are kids who post about the FA package from the ED school not being as generous as hoped. And it’s sometimes a problem of “parents can’t afford EFC” and FA either meets or comes close to meeting full need. And (of course) the ED school is one where there is no merit money to apply for.

And every winter there are kids who post about the FA package from the ED school, which is * clearly not * enough to make the school affordable due to a large gap, but the student is asking for advice on how to persuade their parents to go ahead and let them accept the package anyway 'cause the kid has stars in their eyes about their dream school that just admitted them ED and can’t quite believe that some other (lesser) school may give them a (substantially) better FA package if they’d just turn this one down and apply to additional colleges.

And every winter there are parents (or kids) who post about the FA package from the ED school and bemoan the fact that one of the rolling places has * already * offered the kid $$ that amount to close to a full ride, but the ED school won’t negotiate the FA package and is not particularly sympathetic to the request for release.