<p>If you are admitted to Stanford SCEA and planning to attend, are you going to withdraw your applications from HYP? HYP, because the financial aid among HYPS are similar.</p>
<p>If your mind is already made, the only reason not to withdraw would be to use the other schools’ FA offers as bargaining chips with S’s FA office.</p>
<p>According to the FA FAQ, “If another university has offered a need-based award that is significantly better than Stanfords award, it may be that the other university has received new or updated information about your familys financial situation. In such cases, it may be appropriate for you to request a revision to your award from Stanford.” </p>
<p>I read the above as saying that if you get a better offer from HYP, bringing it to the attention of S’s FA Office may result in an adjustment in your favor.</p>
<p>If you have already applied to HYP, why not wait for this situation to play out and potentially improve your FA?</p>
<p>I was not admitted to S. I was asking whether the SCEA admitted students will withdraw their applications from HYP. That will help the RD applicants. FA among HYPS is similar. The difference is usually a thousand dollars. Not many are going to turn down their top school for a thousand dollars.</p>
<p>Now why would they want to do that? Say some dude also gets accepted to Harvard (even though he was leaning towards Stanford). Well, he took someone’s spot, right? No, because when he turns Harvard down, someone will get in off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Senior: Getting in the RD round and WL are two different things.</p>
<p>^ True, especially as some people might matriculate somewhere else before waiting to see if they’ll even get off the waitlist.</p>
<p>^Well then you accept the spot on the waitlist, see what happens, and rescind your matriculation if need be. Happens all the time. If the waitlisted school was considerably better than the one you matriculated at, then you’ll stay on the waitlist. </p>
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Why don’t you let the student make that decision for himself? Honestly OP, you seem kind of manipulative here.</p>
<p>Senior: What do you think I am trying to manipulate here?</p>
<p>I think you are trying to mislead and/or guilt trip early admits to make it easier for you to get admitted into Stanford RD and–judging from comparable posts on other forums–to Yale, Harvard, and Princeton as well. Is that not what you are doing?</p>
<p>Senior: You think the HYPS accepted students are going to drop their applications to other schools because someone made a post on CC?
If only things were that simple.</p>
<p>Then why are you posting this? Because this does not just seem like a harmless inquiry, given the way you have phrased it and your similar posts in other forums.</p>
<p>I hate to be that guy, MacNCheese, but </p>
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<p>seems to contradict this post you made on the Harvard admitted students thread:</p>
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Just sayin’</p>
<p>And Yale’s admitted students thread:</p>
<p>“Is everyone who is admitted planning to withdraw from HPS? The financial aid is similar among HYPS, so there is no reason to keep the applications open for that reason. No reason to take a spot from another kid during RD admissions.”</p>
<p>I was admitted SCEA, and actually did withdraw the rest of my apps (even HYP) after I committed to not take a spot from someone who wanted it more than me (not saying I would have gotten in or not).</p>
<p>^Yeah, the key here is “after I committed.” I do agree that no one should keep other apps active once they have accepted admission.</p>