<p>If you are offered ED and you cannot afford it, you can decline. But not because they did not offer you aid. The aid package is released after all admission decisions are out. So there is no way you can see your offer as the ED acceptance deadline is much earlier than regular decisions.</p>
<p>Right, regular it is then. So basically I shouldn’t ED for ANY college, considering I definitely need FA ?</p>
<p>You can decline an ED offer but do so at your on peril. When you apply later to any US university you have a very high chance of your application being rejected… </p>
<p>@dreamlord- You can apply EA but definitely not ED…</p>
<p>Is applying ED to Bryn Mawr a good decision considering the fact that I’d also be applying for FA?</p>
<p>From India, you should only apply to an ED school if you know they provide full funding if admitted for Indians. The only such ED school may be UPenn since PerfectPixie said her aid package was comparable to Princeton and Harvard which do not consider international students separately for aid.</p>
<p>Otherwise you are wasting your time applying and withdrawing whereas you do not have this problem with an EA school. They admit you and you can ignore it until May 1st.</p>
<p>Hi everyone i am currently in class 11 so wondering am i welcome in this thread???</p>
<p>^ Sure you are ;)</p>
<p>The golden rule is - if you need FA, do not apply ED. </p>
<p>No point getting admitted if you cannot afford to go there. Many kids think that once they get over the admission hurdle, they can “somehow” manage money. “Somehow managing” to find $50k+ every year for 4 years is neither possible nor worth it, if you don’t have the money to begin with.</p>
<p>Thanks Tizil7!</p>
<p>4 of the Tata scholars in my batch were ED. I don’t see why you shouldn’t apply ED to Cornell if you really want to come here. You can always decline if Cornell does not meet your need, and NO, this does NOT affect your other colleges’ decisions. I know people who were in this situation. Also, Cornell will make the aid offer at the time of letting you know about your ED decision, not after all decisions are out. So you will know whether or not they’re giving you aid when they mail your ED decision.</p>
<p>You can apply ED even if you need aid unless the university website explicitly states otherwise. For Cornell, I’m positive you can.</p>
<p>^Didn’t know that. I think i’ll ED Cornell considering it’s my only ivy on the list.</p>
<p>Can I ED one and EA another college? Cornell ED and uChicago EA to be specific.</p>
<p>Yes you can apply ED and EA simultaneously. But you need to withdraw all applications if /when you get an ED acceptance.</p>
<p>[Applying</a> Early Decision to College: Best Admission Strategy There Is - The Daily Beast](<a href=“Applying Early Decision to College: Best Admission Strategy There Is”>Applying Early Decision to College: Best Admission Strategy There Is)</p>
<p>Please read the article in the link. Following is a snapshot from that article,</p>
<p>The Biggest Admissions Edge</p>
<p>"Of all the tactics you can use for getting into college, a single application trick can instantly double or triple your odds of acceptance. Steve Cohen on admission’s best deal in town. </p>
<p>Every year, parents pay through the nose for college-admission counselors who will supposedly let them in on the secret to getting into a first-choice school. So let me save you from emptying your bank account and tell you, right now, the single biggest advantage students can easily give themselves for getting into a top university: Apply early decision."</p>
<p>Ok guys here is another link that might come in handy</p>
<p>[College</a> Rankings 2011 - The Daily Beast](<a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/topics/college-rankings-2011.html]College”>http://www.thedailybeast.com/topics/college-rankings-2011.html)</p>
<p>This might help you with list of schools offering aid to foreign students</p>
<p>Best Schools for Foreign Students</p>
<p>I am quoting from the article,</p>
<p>"Methodology: To find the best 25 schools for international students we relied on four data points: each college’s score for diversity from College *******, which takes into account student responses and statistics on whether the school has, among other things, international students with a large presence on campus; the amount of financial aid per international undergraduate student receiving financial aid with data from the College Board; the percentage of student services compared to total core expenses with data from the National Center for Education Statistics; and the percent of international students among the total undergraduate population, also from the NCES. Each data point was weighted equally using z-scores (a measure of how close or distant each school is to the average within each category).</p>
<pre><code>Mount Holyoke College (women-only school)
Yale University
Macalester College
Princeton University
Swarthmore College
Grinnell College
Brown University
Wellesley College
Babson College
Williams College
Smith College
Manhattanville College
Dartmouth College
Georgetown University
Rice University
Cornell University
Brandeis University
Wesleyan University
Amherst College
Emory University
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California
Oberlin College
Harvard University
Worcester Polytechnic University"
</code></pre>
<p>anialways - is your kid in US college now?</p>
<p>Yes she is, may I know why do you ask, don’t worry this is a polite question.</p>
<p>I remember you mentioned it a while ago (may have been previous year’s thread). I don’t remember whether you said she is applying or in college or got in and did not go.</p>
<p>She applied ED to BPE Program at Stern, NYU and was accepted and is currently a freshman there.</p>
<p>Interesting major!</p>
<p>One of our friends’ kids got into NYU this year, looked at the tab and decided it was cheaper to get a medical degree from India and moved to Bangalore.</p>