ED1 Class of 2021

@CrewDad to my understanding it also reduces loan expectation for anyone

ED Applicants/Parents. My daughter says the Smith Banner web lists her “required” documents as checked off except for the “Early Decision Agreement.” Was this an actual paper form or just the acknowledgement portion of the Common App? Appreciate any insight.

Congrats to all that were accepted. Does anyone know when regular decision applicants will be notified and will you receive the scholarship/financial aid decision as well?

@OldCheermomDC, Check out this link to a former thread regarding dates for early writes, scholarship notifications, etc. These dates from 2016 aligned with Smith’s notification timing from previous years as well, although you never know if they are going to change things up. Good luck!

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/smith-college/1863234-early-writes.html

Thank you Springbird.

@curiouscollege1 I don’t recall any other ED agreement other than the one for common app. Did you and your daughter both do the one for the common app? Also, bannerweb is not always up to date - but if you are concerned, just call or email admissions. They are super helpful.

My daughter had to submit another ED form through her high school. She was told it was new this year. She applied ED1 and was accepted. She got an e-mail from Smith about 5 days before the acceptance notifications went out with the date and time they would be on the portal. They were actually posted about 2 hours earlier. The online acceptance notice was in the form of a short letter. We got the official mailing about 4 days later. She was given a STRIDE Scholarship and that brought her cost down considerably. The Stride notification was in her acceptance letter from the mailing. There was a separate page with a breakdown of her financial aid package. It was very easy to understand. We were both so excited with the STRIDE scholarship that we didn’t take a really close look at that paper until the next morning. Massachusetts requires all college students to have medical insurance. Her total responsibility included a little over $2000.00 for insurance. She is covered under her Father’s insurance so we had $2,000 less to worry about paying!

Huh, we did not submit anything additional for ED through her high school. We did have a conversation with her counselor about the ED decision, I’m assuming so he could signal that we understand what we were agreeing to, but there was no form. We also had the same reaction about insurance. I was very happy when I called BCBS and found out that our coverage was the same in MA and that there are plenty of providers in Noho and the surrounding areas.