<p>Snowdog…</p>
<p>There really couldn’t be accurate data available, because each student has a different financial situation.</p>
<p>It may be that more affluent students apply ED because FA isn’t a concern, and maybe a good number of poor students apply ED because they know they’ll get great aid.</p>
<p>Maybe more “in the middle” students apply RD because they need to compare pkgs.</p>
<p>Logic suggests that a school would be less likely to give merit to ED students because the school knows that they’re the #1 choice. Schools don’t give merit to be “nice”. They do it as a marketing tool.</p>