<p>Unfortunately, the school can fault you for being honest; they might teason, why offer a place to a student likely to yield to another school? Still, I suspect that it’ll all turn out okay for you. </p>
<p>And OP–sorry for the speculation, but the FA issue really does give your original question a completely different twist and would have been helpful to know up front. Sounds like the school is trying to determine how best to allocate its FA dollars before March 10.</p>