<p>@intparent I know where I stand and have no illusions about getting into Stanford, it’s just an optimism “Why not” thing.</p>
<p>“In fact, you could actually tell them this: you’ll apply RD and on May 1 you will automatically choose whichever school that admitted you is the cheapest for them.” see
this was what I was thinking: Berkeley/the UCs are just 7 grand more then the CSUs (once I factor out health insurance, which I think my parents cover for the first three years), so why not try for both. </p>
<p>I understand what ucbalumnus was saying about ED not improving chance of acceptance, their reasoning is that it allows you to try to apply twice to SLO instead of once.</p>
<p>All of you are saying RD and I totally agree with you and I guess my problem is less logistics and more just convincing my parents.
Is there a justifiable advantage to applying ED?
Is the chance of my receiving (substantial) financial aid greater then my not getting into SLO? (worst case scenario is I don’t get enough financial aid AND I don’t get into SLO) </p>
<p>Also, thank you all for replying, I’ve been struggling with this for a while and I think I just need to talk it out…</p>