<p>Hello, I applied ED to a private school and also applied to one back up state school. State school accepted me first (suprise) and with fin aid I will only be responsible for 3,400 a year, down from 19,000. I actually came to like this school more than the private one. Should I wait for my ED fin aid to come out or make an excuse and decline their offer. I know its ED but I don't want to go and I feel that someone on the waiting list deserves to know if they are going.</p>
<p>ED is binding you cant get out of it. You signed the ED agreement right? and you agreed not to compare FA packages right?</p>
<p>You can get out of an ED agreement if the finances don’t work for you. You can’t really know that the finances don’t work if you don’t have the financial aid information from the college. Check your ED agreement and see if there is another out. If not, I’d recommend waiting for the financial aid and then declining.</p>
<p>Actually Beautiful, you CAN get out of an ED contract if the financial aid is not sufficient. Also, while I don’t advocating applying ED unless you plan to attend, the reality is the ED school is not going to tie this student to a pole and force her attend.</p>
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<p>I’m surprised you haven’t heard from the ED school yet. It’s their fault for being slow to issue the FA package, if another school not ED has already been able to get their act together. Just wait for the ED aid package in case it works out better than the really good state offer. Congrats to you either way!</p>
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<p>How much of the FA is loans? You have to repay loans.</p>
<p>There is nothing in loans. The 3,400 is what I would have in direct sub loans if scholarships don’t work out. Yes I am extremely poor and Florida has good state aid.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. I will wait for the package to come out.</p>
<p>Very odd that ED school hasn’t sent a package. hasn’t the ED response deadline passed?</p>
<p>I’m going to guess this is an ED II admission. OP, are you sure your ED school has all of the required submissions for financial aid consideration? Perhaps your file is incomplete.</p>
<p>You say the state school accepted you first - did you just hear back from the ED school? And they have not sent a financial aid package yet? I would call them, to make sure you have all your financial aid paperwork in, because they usually send at least a tentative aid package with the acceptance when you apply ED, so you can make your decision quickly.</p>
<p>Look at your Ed Contract carefully as many ED contracts allow applying to your instate and accept instate metriculation as acceptable reason to get out of ED contract.</p>
<p>The school only has one ED plan, I was accepted in November. I applied to both at the same time and the State school accepted me in 2 weeks (September). I called the ED and they said the financial aid will be out in a couple of weeks.</p>
<p>Weird ED plan. Can’t imagine why they’d accept in Nov but not send FA until March/April. Might as well be RD. Was it EA and not ED, by chance?</p>
<p>No it was ED. Flagler College has only ED and RD. They remind me every few weeks with a letter telling me to send in the deposit. And their RD students get accepted much later.</p>
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<p>I think telling them you can’t complete enrollment until you have a FA package is reasonable.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, I could not find any more text on the ED agreement (requires you to confirm by Jan 15, and whether you get an out for FA reasons). I think common sense would allow you an out for financial aid reasons. However, if they match your other school (including no loans), you will not have much of a reason. </p>
<p>The risk you run is that Flagler contacts the State School, and the State School rescinds the admissions based upon the ED agreement.</p>
<p>I would write to Flagler College and tell them that you have not gotten your financial aid package and without it you cannot make a commitment to the school. It would be good to have a paper trail about this.</p>
<p>If you didn’t send the deposit January 15th, didn’t you already basically decline the ED acceptance?</p>
<p>I didn’t send the deposit because I couldn’t commit without knowing my financial aid and they gave me an extension. I sent my deposit to the state school.</p>
<p>There’s no problem; tell Flagler you decline their too-late FA offer. You haven’t kept anyone out; schools plan on a certain percentage of declines.</p>