<p>UPenn is a Common App school. From the Common App ED instructions:
<a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf</a></p>
<p>This means that if the FA offer is insufficient to allow attendance, you simply say thanks but no thanks, and apply elsewhere RD. There is nothing dishonest or unethical or even legal involved.</p>
<p>Just imagine that they somehow forced you to attend; when you couldn’t pay the bill you would be expelled.</p>