<p>What if I don't get enough aid and can't enroll? Do I still have to revoke all other application?</p>
<p>No, you ask the ED school for a release and it shall be granted.</p>
<p>In the position you apparently are in (i.e., you need significant aid in order to enroll), you should think about the advisability of applying ED since you can only apply to one school ED and, therefore, will not be in a position to compare financial aid packages. You might have gotten a much better aid package from a comparable school but you would never know that if you apply ED.</p>
<p>One should check the cost calculator and the percentage of need met of the schools before applying ED. In case of unexpected insufficient financial package, you may withdraw from the ED without problem. ED sounds good but it may not be for everyone.</p>
<p>If you have a strong first choice, you increase the chances of getting in by applying ED. </p>
<p>In other words you can’t compare offers with ED, but you may not get accepted at all to the first choice without it. </p>
<p>There are risks both ways. Weigh them, decide.</p>
<p>No disadvantage in applying ED if you’re not sure whether you can afford it or not.</p>
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<p>That’s utter and complete nonsense. As noted above, by applying ED, you lose the chance to compare financial aid offers. That’s no problem if you need full financial aid and they offer you nothing - your decision is made! But it’s far more likely that you’ll get an offer that’s almost in the ballpark, but not really quite close enough. What do you do? For all you know, it could be the best offer you get . . . or it could be the worst. And without the ability to compare offers, you have no way to know.</p>
<p>@AdamAshraf - if you are accepted ED, you are presented with an aid package. At this point you have two choices - accept the package and agree to enroll at the school, and if the package isn’t enough, you need to figure out where to get the rest of the money. Once you accept the package, most schools expect you to withdraw all other applications. Or you decline the package, meaning you are turning down your offer of admission at the ED school. Then you wait and see what all your other packages come in looking like, but you can’t go back to the ED school - you’ve closed that door. That’s why, even though ED makes a difference at my daughter’s dream school, she did not apply ED - net cost was too much of a factor to accept a package without being able to compare several schools.</p>