<p>I wanted to apply to early decision at syracuse university but I was wondering if this affects the aid you recieve.
Thanks </p>
<p>Syracuse University does not guarantee to meet full need for all accepted students…and they don’t…for ED or RD accepted students.</p>
<p>Can you afford to attend Syracuse? Have you run their Net Price Calculator?</p>
<p>Call Syracuse University’s financial aid office and email them and ask specifically if they guarantee to meet full need fore ED students, to see if they do so. Some schools do when they do not for RD students, but I tend to agree with Thumper. Things change year to year., so do call and see what he current situtation is. Then run NPCs and see what they say your family would be expected to pay and what they will likely give you. If there is unmet need, that is picked up for ED students that makes it affordable, it might be worth a go. </p>
<p>Be aware that when you apply ED and get accepted, you have a limited time to accept their fin aid package, and you are not likely to have like school fin aid packages to compare. You’ll and your parents may have to make a decision in a vacuum of take it or leave it in this situation. </p>
<p>My son started at Syracuse this fall. A key reason why he is there is because Syracuse was by far the most generous of the schools he was accepted to when it came to financial aid (except the public state university). He went RD and it was not full need but it was very good.</p>
<p>I concur with the comments above, run the NPC and call financial aid. During our search we found the Syracuse folks to be very accessible. Do ED students get a better financial aid package than RD students? It would be interesting if they did. </p>
<p>Some schools do give better financial aid packages to ED students than they do to RD. CMU guarantees to meet full need as they define it only for ED. Schools want their ED acceptees to come, not have to haggle and hang over the fin aid packages, plus at that early time of the year the federal goodies are all there to distribute. Some schools that are need blind otherwise, may not be need blind for ED, as they may defer students to RD if they do not want to commit to meetign full need.</p>
<p>These things can change from year to year, so it is best to directly ask the fin aid office. </p>
<p>Deuga, did you run the NPC for Syracuse? If so, was it close to the actual package your son received?</p>
<p>cptofthehouse, yes and yes. I just ran it again out of curiosity with my same numbers and the NPC is still within $1500 of reality.</p>
<p>That’s very nice to know, and thank you for sharing that with us. The problems are schools that do not guarantee to meet full need and their NPCs are too optimistic.</p>