Question Relating to ED

Colleges & Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Hey there.</p>

<p>are the people, who apply during the ED period, not eligible to get <em>Need Based</em> FA? Is it mandatory that for recieving FA, you HAVE TO apply during the regular decisions period?</p>

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<p>btw i’m an international!</p>

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<p>bump!!..</p>

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<p>Internationals who need FinAid are not barred from applying EA for Yale. The only thing is if accepted in December, you won’t know the full financial package until April.</p>

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<p>No. On every score.</p>

<p>First, Yale doesn’t have “ED” (Early Decision). What it has is called Early Action. The difference is that Early Action does not bind the applicant to enroll if accepted, but Early Decision does.</p>

<p>Second, a number of colleges do not permit international applicants who would need financial aid to apply in their EA or ED round. For example, MIT. But Yale does not have that rule.</p>

<p>Third, regardless of what the rule is, most students who need financial aid will not apply ED to any college. They are afraid that the college will accept them but give them inadequate aid, and they will be committed to an institution they cannot possibly afford. This fear would not apply to Yale, however, because (a) it does not have ED (see above), so there is no commitment even if Yale accepts you, and (b) for most people, Yale’s financial aid award will be the best (or close to it) of any college, unless the other college is awarding aid based not on financial need but on “merit”. And that’s certainly true of international applicants – Yale is one of a tiny number of colleges that commit to accepting international applicants without regard to their financial need, and to providing full need-based aid (as they determine it) to everyone they accept.</p>

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This unwarranted fear continues to prevent students from applying ED to many schools, despite the clear ED financial aid rule of the Common Application:

<a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>But do note that it makes sense to apply ED needing financial aid only to your dream school, because you are unable to compare aid packages; you must simply decide if you can afford it or not.</p>

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<p>Vonlost:</p>

<p>No doubt you can decline to matriculate to your ED dream school if you don’t feel you have gotten adequate FA but there is much evidence on these boards of a wide disparity in “need-based” FA offerred to the same applicants from peer schools. If Brown is your dream school and offers you little aid after an ED acceptance, you are in a worse position than an RD acceptance there along with RD acceptances to schools like Yale and Dartmouth. If either of those other schools offerred significantly more aid, you would be in a good position to go back to Brown and ask them to reconsider those numbers. The ED student requiring aid won’t be forced to attend a school they cannot afford but certainly may be asked to pay more than they otherwise might have had they had the benefit of aid packages from peer institutions. Of course this is moot on this Yale board because Yale does not do ED.</p>

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<p>Quite so; an applicant must weigh the ED advantages (possible acceptance boost at some schools, getting it all over early) against any disadvantages.</p>