Who's planning on applying EA or ED to the US?

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<p>Have you guys read the post below or known about how hard it is to get out ED agreement? After reading this post, especially reasons 2 and 3, I am thinking perhaps I should re-plan the whole early application thing. (I was gonna ED to Cornell engineering) This IS a big pain!!
WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? </p>

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Post from ‘northstarmom’ at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1008135-withdrawing-early-decision.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1008135-withdrawing-early-decision.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Because you can not compare financial aid offers since once you get an ED acceptance, you are expected to immediately withdraw other applications. You can’t wait until you see what offers you get in April. This means that you can’t negotiate with the college by comparing your need-based aid or merit aid offer from the ED college with another college’s need-based or merit aid offer.</p>

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<li><p>The college may feel that it has met your demonstrated financial need, but your parents may disagree. As a result, it could be a big hassle to be released from your ED. While the ED college won’t sue you or force you to attend it, it can make life miserable for you and your GC, and if you back out of ED other similarly ranked colleges may not accept you.</p></li>
<li><p>If you back out of ED, your GC may not put much effort into helping you get into other places because the GC probably will have done a great deal to support your application to the ED school, even recommending you over other students who aren’t applying there ED. In addition, the ED college may blame your GC for your backing out. Certainly, you still will be able to get into some colleges if you withdraw from an ED acceptance, but you aren’t likely to get into colleges ranked as high as your ED one was. You also may not get merit aid from colleges that base merit aid partially on GC recommendations. For instance, some colleges allow only one student per high school to be recommended for their top merit aid.</p></li>
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