<p>I get it that I can apply EA to all my schools if they offer it, and I get one ED.</p>
<p>I wanted to apply EA to Wooster, and ED to Brown.</p>
<p>a) do i get to do that? As in after an ED, can I also EA Wooster?
b) Im looking for loads of financial aid, does me going EA or ED help…?</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>a) yes, but if you get accepted to Brown you have to reject Wooster.
b) EA may or may not make a difference.</p>
<p>DON’T apply ED unless you are willing to accept whatever financial offer the school gives you. How are you going to know what financial aid you could have gotten elsewhere if you withdraw all other applications?</p>
<p>hey, thnx…</p>
<p>as for the ED thing, the commonapp undertaking says that “Should a student who applies for financial aid not be offered an award that makes attendance possible, the student may decline the offer of admission and be released from the Early Decision commitment”. That means that the whole deal between me and brown stands only if the aid they give me works for me, so if i get in and the aid is suitable, i’ll go for it without a second thought, but if the aid isn’t, i can turn brown down, and then consider my other options, wooster and the others… Did i make any sense at all? Cuz im not sure…</p>
<p>Well, I would assume that it’s a little tougher than that. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s more like if you simply can’t afford it, rather than you just not liking the amount they gave you, in order to be able to back out of ED.</p>
<p>@Ganginang: Sounds about right, but just thinking about it, if I could afford going to a dream college like Brown, I won’t mind paying a little extra than all my other offers. But if I couldn’t, I’d have to tell them, “sorry, but I just cant”… its never going be the attitude-ridden “thanks but no thanks, i dont like the aid you gave me” when it comes to brown.</p>
<p>So someone tell me if they think its a good idea for me to go for it and apply early to brown, if it means i’ll have greater chances of getting in with good aid, pleaaaaaaaase…</p>
<p>ED doesn’t mean you’ll get better aid. However, Brown’s FA policy is need-based. So, you should technically receive the same amount of aid had you been admitted Regular Decision.</p>
<p>not personally involved, but I think I have read elsewhere on CC that Brown’s ED is restricted (that you are not permitted to apply to anywhere EA with it??)…may want to check up on that; I could be going senile…</p>
<p>@Gaginang: Thnx, this really helps… =)
@Rodney : I’ll check it up with them… Thnx</p>
<p>“but if the aid isn’t, i can turn brown down, and then consider my other options, wooster and the others”</p>
<p>Yes. Imagine that you had to present “proof” but then the school didn’t accept it as valid. What would they do? Somehow force you to attend and then expel you when you couldn’t pay the bill? Note that no one has ever mentioned this happening, and the negative PR would be devastating for the school. That’s why it’s solely the student’s (or family’s) decision if the aid is enough to support attendance, just as the Common App ED FA rules say:
<a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf</a></p>
<p>@vossron: exactly… </p>
<p>But iv got the EA/ED Conundrum; the sequel…</p>
<p>Brown’s ED is actually restrictive as Rodney up there says, and im not sure if i want to go with it, cuz i really like wooster and hampshire, and i actually got into both of them last year, but couldnt go because the aid they gave me wasn’t enough, so i took the year off, and thought I’d EA them both, to show im actually really interested in the hopes to bag more aid. </p>
<p>I did get waitlisted at Brown too, even though my scores and GPA wasn’t at Brown’s level. So i guess Im one of those who could really use the ED option since Brown is really out of my league, and the fact that I am an international student (ED is better for us cuz they mite not be interested if they already have some people from a country in their incoming class)</p>
<p>so its either ED-ing brown, which might or might not take me, but if they do, that would be like EXPONENTIALLY GROUNDBREAKING</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>EA-ing Wooster and Hampshire, both of which already accepted me once, and Hampshire even gave me like over 30,000 in aid, so i know they want me on their bodies. And EA-ing would help there in getting the aid i need.</p>
<p>in that situation, ‘to ED Brown or not to ED Brown, that is the question’…</p>
<p>What would u guys do?</p>