<p>"Around 70,000 a year is so ridiculously close to 80,000 dollars, if you were really that hell-bent on not having to take out any student loans, you should have applied regular decision. </p>
<p>You are still misunderstanding. She is not being asked to take out student loans. She is saying that she will have to take out loans to help her parents meet the EFC. This would be the case whether she applied ED or regular decision. Financial aid packages don’t cover the cost of family’s EFCS!> "</p>
<p>I do understand I meant that Alen feels his economic situation is forcing him to take out student loans even though he obviously doesn’t need to. </p>
<p>I honestly do not understand why he felt he had to apply ed though. What I really don’t understand though is why he didn’t take action earlier. If he felt the financial aid package was impossible to deal with, he should’ve called Rice, explained his situation, and hurried up and sent out some apps before the jan first deadline (nearly all colleges are very lenient about apps and materials being late anyway honestly).</p>