<p>Just wondering... if I got accepted to my ED school yet didn't withdraw application from other schools I've applied, would my ED school know that? Would it affect me in some way?</p>
<p>Yes, in some cases ED schools can find out if you did not withdraw other applications.</p>
<p>Yes, it can affect you in some way: They can rescind your acceptance.</p>
<p>(This has been asked so many times… it is disheartening to see so many applicants who do not honor their ED agreements.)</p>
<p>Yes, as many ED schools voluntarily share information with other ED schools.</p>
<p>alamemom,</p>
<p>It’s not that I don’t honour their agreement – mayb true that I don’t honour in some way. I just want to know the decisions from all schools I’ve applied. Otherwise, I will be curious all my life whether or not I actually got accept to that college.</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks!</p>
<p>Not knowing other admissions decisions is something with which you will have to live if you apply and are accepted ED.</p>
<p>According to ED agreement,</p>
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<p>Then what’s this supposed to mean?</p>
<p>I ain’t a big-city fancy lawyer, but I reckon that that there agreement means that you don’t have to withdraw other applications until you receive notification about financial aid from the ED college.</p>
<p>arrrr… that makes much sense. At first I thought it means I do not have to withdraw applications if I seek for financial aid so that I can compare how much each school give me or such thing.</p>
<p>Your (Jahaba) explanation makes much more sense though LOL</p>
<p>jellyya yes, not withdrawing your other applications is a violation of your ED agreement. If you wanted, just out of curiosity, to know the other decisions, you should not have signed an agreement promising to withdraw other applications. (You also state on another thread that your ED school is definitely your second choice and that you applied there to have a low-cost option, so you clearly knew from the start that you planned to violate the agreement.)</p>
<p>As Jahaba says, you do not have to withdraw you other applications until you receive your financial aid information from your ED school, but it does not allow you to wait to see if you get better offers elsewhere. As you list your location as Thailand, it is unlikely that as an International student you would receive need-based financial aid, so this is probably not an issue for you.</p>
<p>well… I would be offered need-based financial aid (if any) from my ED school… so it’s quite an issue for me.</p>
<p>But thank you for clearer explanation alamemom!!</p>
<p>From another thread, I see these are your stats:</p>
<p>"APPLY FOR EA
Gender: F
Citizenship: Thailand
GPA: 3.62 (UW)
Class Taken: AP Chem&LA Honors (These are all my school offered)
Mostly A-~A+; Few B+</p>
<p>SAT: 1780 (Waiting for OCT scores)
Math: 800
CR: 460
Writing: 520</p>
<p>TOEFL: 93 (R-22 L-23 S-23 W-25)"</p>
<p>If you’ve applied to college with those stats, you have very little chance of getting much financial aid from a U.S. college because your stats are too low for the few U.S. colleges that provide generous financial aid to international students.</p>
<p>In addition, if financial aid is a consideration, it’s not a good idea to apply ED unless you’re applying to one of the few colleges that guarantees to meet the full demonstrated financial need of international students, and that also does this without large loans.</p>
<p>If you’ve gotten an ED acceptance, you must withdraw your other applications unless the ED school didn’t meet your financial need. If the school thinks it met your need, but your family disagrees, they may not agree to your withdrawing your application. While they can’t force you to attend, they can let other schools know that you had an ED acceptance, and the other schools will either reject you or not act on your application.</p>
<p>If you wanted to know how many acceptances you could rack up, you shouldn’t have applied ED because applying ED means that in exchange for an earlier notification about acceptances than RD applicants get, you agree to attend the ED school and to withdraw all other applications.</p>
<p>Like with all forms of “Can I lie when applying to college?” :</p>
<p>Will you get caught? Probably not.</p>
<p>Will the consequences for getting caught be terrible? Maybe, maybe not.</p>
<p>Is it worth the risk of being completely screwed over? No.</p>
<p>Northstarmom,</p>
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<p>Yes, my ED school is like that (gurantee to meet the full need once accepted). That’s why I decide to do ED there.</p>
<p>Because Thailand does not have those such thing (ED, EA stuff), I don’t fully understand what ED is. Not that I applied ED without knowing what it is (I know it’s binding agreement), I’m just not clear about its details.</p>
<p>Now, I clearly got your point (all of you) and thank you again for answering my question!</p>
<p>jellyya, looking at your past posts, I think you may be even more misinformed about financial aid than you are about early decision. For example, you posted:
You have made an assumption that you get to tell THEM how much you need - you are incorrect. The universities will gather financial information from you, and then THEY tell you how much they feel you need. How much you “ask” for is not a factor.</p>
<p>“Because Thailand does not have those such thing (ED, EA stuff), I don’t fully understand what ED is. Not that I applied ED without knowing what it is (I know it’s binding agreement), I’m just not clear about its details.”</p>
<p>I don’t understand this since from what I’ve seen, colleges are very clear about what applying ED means, and you and your parents and GC have to sign the agreement, including indicating you’ll withdraw other applications if accepted.</p>
<p>alamemom,
that’s what the admission counselor of the college told me. In addition, the alumni from my school did what I said. I might be mistaken… dunno. But since that happens to the person I know, I believe that what I undestand is true.</p>
<p>NSM,
if you look back to post #7-9, you might understand what I mean by “not very clear”. The statement itself is actually clear but I just somehow understand it in different way. :)</p>
<p>Oh, I get it now. I see why you were confused.</p>
<p>Jellya,
I think it is you and not alamemom who is not understanding the process of determining need. I highly doubt that an admissions counselor told you that students get to tell the college how much they will pay. Maybe you think this is what you were told, but I can almost guarantee that this is not true. Think about it, if this were true, any student, even those whose families are millionaires (think movie stars, etc) could go to Dickinson and say “I only want to pay $10,000, so I need Dickinson to pay the rest.” Colleges would quickly go bankrupt if this were true.</p>
<p>Also, to emphasize what some other posters have said: if you are curious about what other schools you can get into, you are not ready to apply ED.</p>
<p>NSM,
Glad that we now understand each other :)</p>
<p>prefect,
I might not be ready for ED, I agree, but that’s not the issue since I already applied ED. About the financial need, I might be misunderstood. Just as I told, what believe what I believe because a guy in my school applied there last year and paid the amount he indicated on the certification of finance. Plus, about your example, based on what I understand, the college will reject if the person asked too much (in case college knows that it can’t help that much). So if the person want to have higher chances, they should write down bigger number.</p>
<p>EDIT: I re-read your post again and now got your point (I missed the millionaires part). Your case makes sense. I believe they look at both financial application&certification of finances</p>