<p>i was accepted into GW early decision last week, but they havent sent out the financial aid packages yet. my parents are fully capable of paying the tuition, but they feel as though its not completely worth it (GW's business school is ranked in the 50's). they want me to apply to NYU just to see if i can make it because its a better school. i know your definitely not supposed to apply to any more school after your accepted ED, but what could happen if i do? my intentions are definitely to go to GW, but i understand what my parents are saying. should i risk it? or is there any risk involved?</p>
<p>There is certainly risk involved. If either school finds out that you are breaking an Early Decision contract, then your acceptances at both schools will be immediately and unquestionably withdrawn.</p>
<p>don’t do it. don’t break the contract. just saying- since u cant break the contract- applying would might be taking the place of someone else who really wants to go there. just sayin. congrats on gw btw =]</p>
<p>what terrible grammar. sorry bout that. i think im gonna go zzz…</p>
<p>If you weren’t sure your parents would pay, you probably shouldn’t have applied to the most expensive school in the country ED. And although it has a better business program, NYU will probably cost just as much as GWU. In addition, it is just a bad idea - way too risky and very dishonest.</p>
<p>Do not risk it. If caught, and you probably will be as schools circulate lists of those they accept ED, both schools will rescind/reject you. You signed a contract. Your parents did too, and they should have thought it through at that time.</p>
<p>Early decision is early decision. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.</p>
<p>When your guidance counselor catches wind of it, you can be assured that his/her door will be closed to you. They are under no obligation to submit to your next schools the materials needed (transcript, school report). Frankly, I’m sure they’d even tell your teachers not to write LORs. Why? </p>
<p>If you do break the ED contract, your HS will likely get blacklisted and future ED applicants won’t get the time of day for quite a while. There’s a penalty involved for those who helped you. And their first priority is to their own reputations and future classes: not a family who got cold feet after signing a contract.</p>
<p>You had up until the time decisions were announced to withdraw your ED status. Sorry. Best of luck to you however.</p>
<p>By the way: congratulations!!! If anyone hasn’t said so already. Good work and I’m sure you’ll have a great next four years.</p>
<p>i get the point. lets stop flaming now :)</p>
<p>Congrats! And I agree with everyone else =D</p>
<p>What is it about breaking ED contracts this year on CC? </p>
<p>no, you can’t apply to NYU to see if you can get in/get more money/have a nicer dorm/live in nYC…</p>
<p>this is the third, “can I back out of my ED” I’m reading and I just logged on 10min ago…</p>
<p>YEs u can back out. CAll up the admissions office/ financial aid office and B*itch and moan about how ur parents are poor and cant afford the tuition. Yell at the person if u have too. My friend did that last year when he found out that the school he ED sucked for Premeds. So anyways, just complain, yell, and complain more about ur inability to pay.</p>
<p>don’t do it :(</p>
<p>Yeah, do as Jason said, and then when you don’t get in to NYU, I’d say you’re stuck. Why didn’t you just apply there early instead?</p>
<p>Post Script: I just looked at your stats: You aren’t going to Stern, and you were lucky to get in to GW Business.</p>
<p>PPS- AND you missed the Financial Aid filing date for GW. No wonder your parents are mad.</p>
<p>You could apply to NYU… as long as you withdraw your ED acceptance immediately after you get your FA package from GW. You can’t compare FA packages whatsoever. You either withdraw it months before you get a decision from NYU or you don’t apply to NYU at all. </p>
<p>In that case, I don’t think your school is blacklisted, but correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>I will correct you. The contract has been signed and closed. Like rodney, I am disgusted by the threads that essentially request “how do I change my mind after I bought the product”? I guess in this age of Nordstrom and Best Buy, folks feel like they can “exchange” their goods. In the financial world, however, contracts are contracts. Colleges cannot force one to attend (thank God, indentured servitude is gone), but they sure can make hell for you, and the future applicants from your high school, through the formalized ED “blacklist” process (assuming your high school counselor doesn’t rat you out, which I assume he/she will, in which case you will be the only casualty). What happened to integrity?</p>
<p>I can’t imagine this happening.</p>
<p>I know for a certainty that at our high school, the GC would NOT send any transcripts, LORs, etc., to NYU after a student had been accepted to his ED school, because the GC would have had a serious discussion with the family in the fall before the ED application was submitted, to be sure that all ramifications were understood, including the FA ramifications.</p>
<p>If there had been a change in the family’s financial situation since the fall, that would be a different story. And the GC would be expecting the student to withdraw from the first school before she would send out any further application packets. And she would be expecting to send the new application packets only to less expensive schools or less selective schools where the student would qualify for significant merit money. NYU would not qualify on any of those criteria. And the GC would not send anything to NYU.</p>
<p>OP, you say that your parents could afford GWU, but you’ve posted about missing the deadline for submitting for aid. If your family’s EFC was large enough to cover the COA for GW, then missing the aid deadline probably meant nothing, since you wouldn’t be getting any money from GW. If your EFC was less than the COA and your parents were counting on getting aid from GW to make it affordable, then that’s a different story. Did you ever contact the GW admissions office and find out if you could submit your aid request later than the deadline? As a parent, if we were in that situation–child submitted ED application, missed FA deadline, school wouldn’t allow us to submit request for FA late–I’d have my kid immediately withdraw the ED application and convert it to RD. </p>
<p>It’s frightening how parents are signing on the dotted line for ED without understanding what they’re committing to.</p>
<p>Has something changed recently in the way ED is handled on the Common Application? People keep saying that parents and guidance counselors have to sign the agreement, but when my son applied ED three years ago all he did was check a box on the Common Application. </p>
<p>Although I knew he was applying ED, I never signed anything and neither did his father. And I know for sure that his guidance counselor had no idea he’d been accepted ED until I told her so over a month later. (She was trying to encourage him to accept an offer from a rolling admissions school, and I had to tell her he’d already declined it due his ED offer.)</p>
<p>kdmom, I just checked the Common Application ED supplement. It requires signatures from the student, the parent or legal guardian, and the GC. I’ve no idea if this is a recent change, but it seems crazy to me that this hasn’t always been part and parcel of ED.</p>