<p>Excuse me if I don't agree with the main university train of thinking, but don't you think that it's a little funky to have to sign a contract agreeing that you won't apply for early decision anywhere else, if you apply at a specific school? Maybe there are reasons that I'm not aware of, but I just don't like it. What do you think?</p>
<p>The bigest thing that contract doesn't tell you is that you are bound by one financial aid offer. </p>
<p>Go EA, its better, especially the EA at Uchicago, MIT, Caltech, Georgetown, Rice, and Norte Dame.</p>
<p>Rice is binding ED. ID is not binding. Harvard and Yale are Single Choice EA.</p>
<p>I'm applying EA to Rice and UChi!!! =\ Even though Rice was my top choice for a long time. I just can't commit...</p>
<p>too bad a lot more schools do ED than EA.</p>
<p>ED gives great yields.</p>
<p>But...commitment!!!!</p>
<p>I plan on applying ED to duke, and i've been talking to a guy who is a junior there and he said that you can back out of ED for financial reasons, but he also said that he and his fraternity would help me to appeal the decision for the amount of financial aid i would receive...maybe you can do this at other schools too?</p>
<p>Well, I'm applying ED to Columbia because I know without a doubt that I want to go there, and there is no other school I would like to attend half as much. ED gives you a higher chance of acceptance because by signing the binding agreement, you make it clear to the college that you are serious in your choice and didn't just apply for the hell of it.</p>
<p>True that, but ED sucks for all of us who need to "shop around" financial package-wise. At least, that's my impression but...
Latinac--
wow, and you can back out of an ED agreement for financial reasons? Without getting blacklisted?</p>
<p>If you need to back out for financial reasons, you better have the documentation to support it.</p>