<p>Yes, so far the take-home message is that if a student wants to end up at a state university, he probably can. But if he applies ED somewhere pretty desirable, and breaks the ED agreement, he very likely will NOT get into any college even more desirable (e.g., a top Ivy) because the highly selective colleges see no reason to admit a lot of students who break ED agreements. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/education/edlife/strategy.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/education/edlife/strategy.html</a> </p>
<p>“If we find that you lied to us and applied to our regular action process holding an admission from an early binding place,” says Marlyn McGrath Lewis, admissions director at Harvard, “we would either not admit you or we would withdraw our offer.”</p>