Reed Early Decision

<p>Does applying early decision to Reed prohibit you from applying early action to other schools?</p>

<p>No, but if Reed accepts you, you must attend (unless Reed's FA offer is insufficient), and withdraw the other EA applications.</p>

<p>huh? we can break the ED bond? I mean we can choose not to attend Reed if it does not provide us sufficient FA?</p>

<p>Yes. From the Common App ED agreement:
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Should a student who applies for financial aid not be offered an award that makes attendance possible, the student may decline the offer of admission and be released from the Early Decision commitment.

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<a href="https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Anyway, how could a school force you to attend if you couldn't pay?</p>

<p>strange, man.
because there is another thread where people say that once the school accepts your ED, even if the school doesn't give you aid, you still have to attend
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/682036-applying-early-decision-your-financial-aid.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/682036-applying-early-decision-your-financial-aid.html&lt;/a>
or only Reed has this policy?</p>

<p>It's true at all schools that use the Common App. People erroneously believe that such schools can and will force attendance even if there's no money.</p>

<p>What is "insufficient" aid? Suppose you got accepted to Reed and part of their aid included $4000 of loans a year - could you reject it because you don't want to borrow that much?</p>

<p>Well, yes, it's your decision, not the school's, but $4000 per year is generally so modest (compared to some other schools) that ED would seem to have been inappropriate (implying that you really want to compare FA packages, trying to get one without loans). When requesting FA ED, the idea is that you are so enamored of a school that you'll try your best to do whatever it takes to attend your by-far number one first choice. Reed says up front that loans will be part of their offer.</p>