<p>AdamJaz</p>
<p>getting out of ED IS easy </p>
<ul>
<li>in fact if one applies RD elsewhere after being accepted ED,
… one’s ED institution may not give one a choice in the matter :)</li>
</ul>
<p>The trick, so to speak, would be gaining and maintaining acceptance at a comparable or better school after breaking ED. That doesn’t seem to happen much if at all.</p>
<p>If we find that you lied to us and applied to our regular action process holding an admission from an early binding place, says Marlyn McGrath Lewis, admissions director at Harvard, we would either not admit you or we would withdraw our offer." "We have a couple every year and we withdraw their admission…because we cant trust the student.</p>