<p>Is there a better chance of getting into Marist when you apply Early Action rather than when you apply Regular Decision?</p>
<p>No, the admission committee looks at all applications, regardless of what deadline they choose, equally. Applying EA vs RD will not impact the admission decision. </p>
<p>The benefit of applying EA is you receive a decision letter about two months earlier in the process. EA decisions go out by the end of January, RD decisions are sent by the end of March. If you apply RD, it gives the student two extra months to finish their application, collect their recommendation letters, finalize their essay, etc.</p>
<p>My D and I are finding out that sometimes EA doesn’t always work out. She was deferred to 2 out of the 3 schools she applied EA to so now she still has to wait until the end of March for an answer. It’s so annoying because you spend all the time and energy to get all the materials out early and then you still don’t know one way or the other.</p>
<p>I agree that it doesn’t always work out. Same situation for my D and still haven’t heard from Marist. However, in our case the fact is that the school wants to see more and it means more learning, which is a good thing for my D! I’d rather find out this way than after paying a lot that the school isn’t for her.</p>
<p>What does everyone think about the academic scholarships and money that Marist offers? Are they generous?</p>
<p>My son has received merit scholarship offers from all of the schools he’s heard from. I have a spreadsheet which generates a chart of the net cost of attendance. It’s sort of interesting that the net cost of attendance of the private schools he’s been accepted to seem to all be equalized within about $5000. Marist has a lower sticker price, but their scholarship offer was in the middle of the pack. The sticker price of two other schools were both over $50k, but their scholarship offers were $20k to $22k. In the end, both of those schools would end up costing the same as Marist.</p>
<p>My D got $6k per year. Not huge, but better than nothing!</p>