is early decision really binding?

<p>i was looking at tcnj's website for the number of students who applied to, were accepted to, and went to the college under early deicison. i saw the number of ed kids who went to the college was lower than the # that got accepted as ed. i though ed was binding? why the discrepancy?</p>

<p>One can get out of it if there's a major emergency (such as developing an illness that keeps you from going away from home) or if one can not afford to go to the college.</p>

<p>In case you are thinking about applying ED and then backing out, check out this thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=99009%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=99009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>