<p>If you are sure that you want American U and if you can afford it no matter what the financial aid package, ED is fine, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Although ColgateDad has a valid point, the counterargument is that nothing horrible would have happened if his daughter had applied ED to Middlebury, been accepted there, and been obligated to go there. </p>
<p>My daughter applied ED to Cornell, was accepted there, and went there. Might she have been happier at one of the other schools on her list? Possibly, but she didn’t think about it that way. She thought about it as a way to enhance her chances of admission to Cornell and to get the whole thing over with by December.</p>
<p>If you’re like my daughter – ready to choose one school as your favorite and not look back, I think ED is fine, as long as there’s no problem with money.</p>