<p>The only exception of getting of ED seems to be for financial reasons</p>
<p>What if one’s need really doesn’t match what the college offers? </p>
<p>Will the college try to negotiate?</p>
<p>I heard of breaking ED if the FA doesn’t work out, but HOW exactly does that process work? Do you phone them and start negotiations?</p>
<p>You ask for a financial review and show documentation as why this is not a good financial fit for your family. Unless there are really extenuating circumstances (loss of a job, unreimbursed medical expenses, taking care of a sick parent), your aid package will not change much as things such as we have $X in credit card debt, I pay $Y in mortgage, my parents refuse to pay $Z will not fly because those are life choices that you make.</p>
<p>Part of a family’s due diligence especially when considering ED is to run the numbers through many of the FA calculators. Keep in mind that the FAFSA EFC tells only part of the story and only determines your eligibility for federal aid as schools with deep pockets and instiutional aid to give will use either the CSS profile or their own aid form. The college board has calculators that you can use - run your numbers using both the federal and the institutional methodology.</p>
<p>There can be a big disconnect between what you feel that you can afford to pay and what the college believes you can afford to pay and at the end of the day in the ED process, the college is the one really holding all of the cards.</p>
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<p>Then don’t apply ED. If your needs change that drastically between October and April, that’s not the college’s problem. If you were simply trying to game the system, again, that’s not the college’s problem.</p>
<p>Do your due diligence and apply ED ONLY if you know that you would be happy going to that college.</p>
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<p>Indeed. And that includes considering the financial aid issues in advance.</p>
<p>I would asume that if you have an extremely compelling and legitimate reason and you ask permission, then a college may allow you out of the ED contract. For example, if you apply ED to a school across the country and are accepted and then find out that your mother has terminal cancer, you could request your ED college to allow you to apply to other, closer schools. Many regular decision deadlines may have passed, but if not, I do not think another college would look poorly on something like this. But I think you would definitely need to ask permission from the ED school before you applied to another school.</p>
<p>Ok this is what I want to know.</p>
<p>What if you apply ED to a school like Johns Hopkins. Before the ED application is even due, you also apply to X amount of Regular Decisions schools. You get your acceptance to Johns Hopkins on December 15th. What if you have REALLY bad senior grades, and you know they will rescind your application, but you’re hoping to get accepted some places during Regular Decision. Do you HAVE to cancel your RD apps before the RD schools send you acceptance letters? I thought the process was if you’re accepted ED to school A you have to mail school B a letter saying to revoke your admission (not application).</p>
<p>Can someone please tell me where it says withdraw application instead of withdraw admission? Because I’m almost positive I read the latter on my ED contract form (not CommonApp one).</p>
<p>My brother applied to BU ED and got deferred to RD, but he also applied to to 10 other schools before sending his ED app. He got accepted to some schools, then got accepted to BU and went there. How does BU find out you already sent your apps, because doesn’t EVERYONE apply to more schools than just there ED school. I know people don’t do all those apps after Dec 15th!</p>
<p>Post a link to the form you signed.</p>
<p>Here’s the language in the JHU Early Decision Agreement:
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<p>You must withdraw the applications, not the admissions.</p>
<p>(The sole exception is if you applied to the BME program and were admitted to the University but not BME. Then JHU considers the Early Decision agreement void and you don’t have to withdraw your other applications.)</p>
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<p>If you apply ED but get deferred to the RD pool of applicants, you are no longer obliged to attend that school, even if they admit you RD.</p>