Hi. I’m an international student who applied ED2 to College A with financial aid. However, after several long conversations with my parents, I decided to change my ED2 application to RD application.
The question is, I want to also change my financial aid status as well-- I want to apply without aid application. This is because my parents’ overall income is over 200K, and this morning we found out that we aren’t going to get as much aid as we could-- when I got accepted to a safety school with 10K aid that I was pretty sure that I am going to get over 30K aid. Also, I got denied my ED app from my dream school, and even though I know it’s not the only factor why I got denied, a huge part of the reason is because I applied for aid. (That school gives aid to only 30~40 international students.) My parents decided that if applying aid as an international student impacts my app that much, and if I am going to get only 10-20K as my aid package, it will be similar to paying full tuition. So we decided that I should change my ED application to RD and also withdraw my aid applicant, and apply as an RD applicant without aid. (We decided to change to RD because I applied to 10 other schools and I want to compare going to College A with full tuition or going to another college with some aid if I get accepted to both schools.)
So it is possible to change from ED+financial aid → RD+without financial aid? Thanks:)