<p>OP, if you’re admitted ED and don’t get enough aid, you can ask the school to reconsider. Whether or not they’ll do that is another matter. I suggest you go over to the Cornell forum and/or the parents forum and ask if anyone has successfully negotiated a higher FA award during ED.</p>
<p>Have you and your parents run the school’s NPC to see if the award would make the school affordable? If the school will still be too expensive, then applying ED is setting yourself up for failure–you could get in but you won’t have any leverage for negotiating. </p>
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<p>Just in case anyone is lurking and is tempted to follow this advice–it’s jaw-droppingly wrong. If this were actually an effective strategy, then no parent would pay their EFC. We’d all just tell our children to have themselves declared independent and start planning on how to use all our savings.</p>
<p>Rhandco…you have given your misinformed information about contacting a lawyer and being declared independent on at least two different threads. Please stop spreading misinformation. The people who make a determination regarding a dependency override died or dependent undergrads are the financial aid officers at the colleges. Contacting a lawyer isn’t going to do a y good except waste money.</p>
<p>If you are implying that a student should become emancipated from their parents and need to seek legal advice about this…please keep in mind that emancipation is very difficult to gain. It is virtually impossible in a situation where the student is living with their parents who are providing their support.</p>