<p>Hello everyone, I was accepted to Columbia University ED and I am thrilled!!!! Now I have a couple clarifying questions.</p>
<p>1) How do I retract applications I sent to other schools? Do I send them a mail or something?</p>
<p>2) I did not receive as much financial aid as I wanted. Is there anyway I can argue this??</p>
<p>3) Do I just leave common app. alone now or is there anyway to delete it?</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Hey NW, did you apply to both Columbia ED and Stanford SCEA? I’m confused; I didn’t know you could do both unless SCEA only restricts you from applying to other EA schools.</p>
<p>I was actually curious about that too.</p>
<p>Count me in as wondering how NW could be both ED and SCEA.</p>
<p>Sighhhhhhhhh sorry about all the confusion. My friend does not have a College confidential account, so I let him borrow my account for a while. He forgot to title it as “chance my friend!!!” or whatever. As you can see our stats are totally different. He applied to Stanford SCEA, and I applied to Columbia ED.</p>
<p>Can anyone answer my question?</p>
<p>Congratulations! E-mail admissions and ask them to withdraw your application because you’ve been accepted ED to another school.</p>
<p>Keep a copy of that e-mail in case the college forgets to withdraw your app.</p>
<p>You can try to ask for more aid but you may be told no.</p>
<p>The school may need additional information from you and your parents to reevaluate your financial aid package. It’s definitely worth a call to them to find out. Since so few were accepted it’s obvious they liked you and one would think they’d want to help make sure you can attend!</p>
<p>“2) I did not receive as much financial aid as I wanted. Is there anyway I can argue this?”</p>
<p>You can’t argue it based on what you “wanted.” You can argue it if it seems that Columbia didn’t meet your need such as if your family has had high medical bills that Columbia didn’t take into consideration.</p>
<p>If, though, they met your documented need, but you wanted more, you are stuck, and should have applied RD so you could have compared financial aid offers and possibly have gotten merit aid from schools that use merit aid to lure top students.</p>
<p>How should I approach them? I feel I have a legitamite case.</p>
<p>So who is the real NW?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/824326-official-columbia-ed-class-2014-results-9.html#post1063676430[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/824326-official-columbia-ed-class-2014-results-9.html#post1063676430</a></p>
<p>The posting below really concerns me. I also sincerely hope for your sake that you did not apply to these two schools using REA and ED, as if you did, you likely may not end up at either.</p>
<p>NW Quote:
“Yeah I completely agree. Have been working and sending in my other apps, pretending I never even applied ED. Hard to do though ahah”</p>
<p>Please refer to post #5. I apologize. Can anyone help?</p>
<p>Call the FA office and ask them what to do.</p>
<p>Is your FA so low that, if they do not increase it, you will not be able to afford Columbia? If so, then don’t withdraw your other apps until you’ve resolved the issue. You may have to ask to be released from your commitment to Columbia and need to have other possibilities in place. That does not mean that you can wait for other acceptances and see who gives you more; it simply means that you don’t withdraw your applications yet. Your situation should be resolved by February. However, once you’re released, it’s final; you cannot decide in April that no one gave you more so you’ll go to Columbia after all.</p>
<p>If you’ll go to Columbia in any event, then withdraw your apps now. Phone or e-mail is sufficient.</p>
<p>"My friend does not have a College confidential account, so I let him borrow my account for a while. "</p>
<p>Curious about why your friend didn’t open up his own CC account since it’s easy to do so and free.</p>
<p>If you feel your have a legitimate case for needing (not wanting) more financial aid, you call Columbia’s financial aid office and state your evidence for needing more financial aid.</p>
<p>The evidence can’t be something like, “State U has offered me a full ride, and I think Columbia should match that offer.” </p>
<p>You have to be demonstrating that your financial NEED – not financial wants – are not being met by Columbia, something that typically is difficult to prove because Columbia promises to meet 100% of DEMONSTRATED financial need of its students.</p>
<p>If Columbia feels they’ve met 100% of your demonstrated financial need, they will not let you back out of ED because you want more money. That would mean that you will not get into any other top colleges since you will have violated your ED contract.</p>