<p>Does ED effect financial aid, My EFC is 0 and I am thinking about USC. I think that USC is a blind need school, so Im assuming that they give more financial aid than other schools. So if I apply there for ED will I still get the aid or is there a chance I might not? cause I dont want to get accepted and have to pay tens of thousands of dollars. cause on the net price calculator, it said my price would be around 5,000</p>
<p>Are you talking about U of South Carolina? There is no Early decision option at University of Southern California.
Need blind schools do not take into account financial need when making admission decisions, but that does not mean they are always more generous overall than other schools. Financial Aid can be in the form of Grants, which are like scholarships and dont have to be paid back or loans, which DO have to be paid back .</p>
<p>From the USC website:</p>
<p>USC does not offer early decision or early action admission programs. All students who apply to the university by the appropriate deadline (December 1st for first-year scholarship applicants, January 10th for all other first-year applicants and February 1st for all transfer applicants) are given equal consideration in the application review process.</p>
<p>I think the op means University of Southern California where there are no early application programs.</p>
<p>You’re a little confused. Whether a school is “need blind” (not “blind need”) has nothing to do with how generous it is with financial aid. It just means that the school won’t look at your financial aid needs when deciding whether or not to admit you. Seems like you need to do a little more research on the college admissions process, including ED (particularly about when you can decline an ED acceptance) and financial aid.</p>
<p>OP you need to look for college that say they “meet need”…as just explained “need blind” simply means they accept and reject without regard to financial need and has nothing to do with whether the university or college will meet your need for a financial aid package. Research colleges that claim to “meet need.” There is no guarantee that the college costs will be the same as the calculator says as your financial aid will be calculated from the financial aid forms that are filled out and submitted.</p>
<p>If you need alot of financial aid to attend college make sure you have a college or two on your list that you can afford and that you are pretty much guaranteed to get accepted. For many kids in many states this is one of your state public institutions or sometimes a private college where you are guaranteed substantial aid based on your GPA and test scores. These scholarships are often published on the websites for both the public and the private. Watch for the “meets need” language, in my state not ALL publics meet need for in-state kids. You need to pay attention to your state’s language.</p>
<p>Also universities have different programs for application. ED is Early Decision and is binding and has rules surrounding where you can apply if you are applying ED. Applying ED means that is the school you wish to attend and INTEND to enroll if you are accepted and you will confirm that enrollment right away - within weeks of notification. EA is Early Admission and is not binding. You will find out if you are accepted early, generally in December but you don’t need to decide until May 1st if you will attend. Rolling schools accept and reject continually usually within a period of weeks or months after you apply.</p>
<p>Hopefully you are a junior and starting your research. Ask questions as you go and there are plenty of people that will answer.</p>
<p>“I dont want to get accepted and have to pay tens of thousands of dollars.”</p>
<p>If you apply somewhere ED asking for financial aid, it’s your decision to accept or reject the ED FA offer. If the NPC says your EFC would be more than you can afford, you may be wasting the application fee.</p>
<p>The first thing you need to do is research the schools on your list and see if they offer anything in terms of early apps and what the rules and deadlines are. You’ve asked about a school that has no Early Decision. ALso some schools restrict your other apps if you apply early. You need to read the rules for each school V-E-R-Y carefully before getting into this area of early commitments. ED has some commitments in there, you know. You had better know what they are.</p>
<p>As a general rule, you are permitted to apply to only ONE school under Early Decision. Some schools do not permit types of Early Action applications even, if you apply ED to them. If you need or want financial aid, you generally fill out an estimated PROFILE or other estimated financial aid information form at the time you apply ED. When you get an acceptance, there will be an estimated financial aid package included. You have a limited time period to request a release from your ED commitment, and one of the few reasons such a release is granted is if the aid package does not give you enough money to be able to afford to go. If you don’t get a release in that time period, your name will be on the ED acceptance list that is circulated to those colleges that subscribe to that list, and you will be flushed from consideration from them. So, it’s important you toe the line with the ED rules. </p>
<p>If you do decide that the financial aid is not enough, you let the school know in that time period, and if they cannot come up with what you need, then you are released and that school is off your list. But you have a small window of time to do this. </p>
<p>For Early Action or Rolling Decision schools, often the aid package doesn’t come until much later, since you don’t have to commit to them until May1. The deadlines for the FAFSA an any other info will generally be about the same as Regular Decision, and you can use actual year end figures if you have them early in the next year.</p>