<p>If you apply to a school ED, do you still have a chance to get scholarships and stuff from them? It’s so confusing haha because I know exactly what school I want to go to, but I don’t have the money for it (which is why I am either going to do the Air Force or try to get scholarships).</p>
<p>^ Yes, you can still get scholarships.</p>
<p>Okay because I was getting kind of confused when they were saying that you should be financially balanced to be able to apply ED or EA.</p>
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<p>I don’t know what neomom meant when she said that one had to be financially confident to apply EA. As for ED, it is generally advised that one be confident in his or her ability to pay, as ED is a binding agreement if you are accepted. However, even this never made much sense to me: you can get out of the “binding” agreement for financial reasons.</p>
<p>Yeah, that doesn’t make sense. Well my family isn’t poor, its about middle class of 70,000<x<75,000 somewhere inbetween there. But the school I’m looking at is about 53,000$ a year altogether and yeah, I definitely cannot afford that.</p>
<p>What school? With your income level, there are some schools for which you would receive nearly full aid.</p>
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<p>I am familiar with the Dartmouth statistics and they publish some wonderful stats that are hard to find elsewhere. While the average ED admits look the same, the spread of the data can be much different. Using the Georgetown stats (Georgetown College) for the middle 50% of SAT scores, what we see is:</p>
<p>EA: 700-750 CR; 700-750 M
RD: 680-770 CR; 670-770 M</p>
<p>This suggests that admission is easier for top notch applicants, but harder for marginal applicants. For the better candidates the university appears to be more lenient in exchange for the greater likelihood that they will enroll. On the other end of the scale, the university looks like they are less willing to admit those without great stats during EA. i.e., the class get rounded out during RD. However, in the case of Georgetown the worst that can happen to an EA applicant is that the get deferred. No one is denied.</p>
<p>Another aspect regarding ED, if "Tufts syndrome’ exists at some schools, (rejecting highly qualified applicants deemed not likely to attend), then a candidate is more likely to be accepted, since the ‘not likely to attend’ penalty does not apply.</p>
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<p>Yes, this is true.</p>
<p>Ah. I may have misspoken on EA and money. The rules, written and not, are always changing. For ED, you definitely need to be willing and able to accept whatever financial deal you get. And, yes, both willing and able. You should not just assume that what the school thinks you can/will pay is what you can/will pay. If you renege on an ED offer, you do run the risk of having other schools reject you - and some schools do swap data on ED acceptances. So, don’t gamble.
With EA, it’s a different story. Some EA rules will make it hard to compare offers.
ED will come with an aid offer. It might or might not be the best you can get.</p>