<p>i'm sure you've gotten this question in the past.. but do applicants who apply ED really tend to get less financial aid than regular applicants?</p>
<p>I am wondering this as well...</p>
<p>answer someone! me and gogetter are waiting in suspense.</p>
<p>Schools will tell you it makes no difference, but the "man on the street" opinion polls come down on the side of less aid offered to ED applicants.
This question comes up every year. No one seems to have established a method to prove it one way or the other. Generally, the theory is, if a school knows that they are your #1 choice why would they offer you FA? They don't need to entice you into coming to their school.</p>
<p>As aprent whose child applied RD and is attending her first choice school, the "advantage" that RD gives you is the ability to compare offers and be able to negotiate. This ability to negotiate improved her freshman package by over $4000 and she got a similar package for sophmore year.</p>
<p>ED you are commited to attending and must withdraw all of your other applications. </p>
<p>While yes, you can appeal your aid package during ED but your are left with few recourses. If the school says no, what are you going to do, you have committed to attending. Some schools will only release you from your ED to attend your local state U. Do studnets circumvent the process, yes. DO students, GC and schools get 'blacklisted" because of how students from that school "abuse" the ED process, yes. Do schools share information regarding ED admissions? Yes because they pretty much agree not to "take students who have commited to a school". The Ivy league schools have a joint statement attesting to this.</p>
<p>The schools will deny it of course; they will say that the aid is need-based and thus is the same ED or RD, but they are probably less willing to give you more money if it's the only school you have. I know there are cases where someone said they were going to turn down a school bc another school gave more money, and the aid package was increased. That wouldn't happen if you applied ED.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there are a lot of people who are happy with their packages (ED people, I mean)</p>
<p>Those responses really help, thank you! My first choice is NYU and I've heard that its ED applicants get the opposite deal; their aid tends to be more than RD applicants. Does anyone know if this is true?</p>
<p>If you are operating from a money is no object perspective then choose NYU ED. However know before hand that NYU is notorious for not giving good aid, they gap and their aid packages are heavy on loans (2 rounds at NYU and pretty much paid for the whole thing myself). at a cost of over $40,000 their top scholarshio caps out at $25,000 and there are very few of those.</p>