Backing out of ED?

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<p><a href=“You’re In. Can You Back Out? - The New York Times”>You’re In. Can You Back Out? - The New York Times;

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The most acceptable excuse officials cite for backing out of an early decision commitment is a financial aid package that a family considers too low. The financial aid letter is often the first time a family sees all the costs lined up, says Eric Maguire, director of admission at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. “Some families are finding their aid packages are not aligned with their expectations. If so, we certainly enable them to break their commitment.”</p>

<p>Officials occasionally bend rules for other reasons, too. If he senses a student has applied under parental pressure and doesn’t really want to attend, “we back off,” says John F. Latting, director of undergraduate admissions at Johns Hopkins. Barbara Hall, associate provost at New York University, will also set unhappy students free. “They are, after all, 17 years old,” she says. “This is not a legal agreement they have signed. If a student says to us, ‘This is really where I thought I wanted to be, but I can’t see myself there now,’ we release the student. It doesn’t make sense to have students who don’t want to be here.”

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