<p>well i wont be applying for financial aid.</p>
<p>@ b@r!um --> i guess its just the English "UCAS" mentality...in the UK we have a much smaller choice of top tier universities and as such, the best candidates apply to a variety of choices whether it be massive Nottingham/Manchester, middle of no where Warwick, Ancient Durham, Oxbridge, mega expensive London Unis etc...i like many of my friends applied to vastly diffrent unis such as durham, notts, warwick, oxford, lse and ucl...and can see myself quite happy in all of them..oh and also in the UK its more of a case that you apply first to wildly diffrent Unis and then choose according to location etc etc etc.</p>
<p>and besides..its pretty hard to convince a parent to let her son take a gap year and apply to a University which isnt extremly well know ($50k<em>4 vs $6k</em>3 is quite a diffrence and shes not really liking the idea of me going anywhere other than that)</p>
<p>whilst i wouldnt say that i have amazing stats for a CC-American (some of you guys are crazy EC wise :D) if all goes as planned i will have a v.nice selection of leaderships, awards and ECs going for me...</p>
<p>will applying ED to Chicago greatly increase chances? im
contemplating this because i want to major in Economics and ive been told this is the best place for undergrad (along with columbia + penn i think)....</p>
<p>thanks :)</p>