<p>Hi, is it possible to withdraw your ED app if they haven't reviewed your app or accepted/rejected you yet?</p>
<p>Yes it’s possible.</p>
<p>Yes, but do it ASAP. Contact the Admissions Office.</p>
<p>Oh okay thanks! I didn’t apply ED yet, but if I get in EA for other schools I might withdraw NYU’s EDII.</p>
<p>Don’t apply ED if it’s not your 1st choice school and/or you need to compare financial/merit packages.</p>
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You could wait to submit the application until after your EA decisions.</p>
<p>And since you’re applying ED to NYU, I assume you have ~$200,000 laying around? Because it’s a bad idea if you need financial aid.</p>
<p>NYU is notorious for giving people tens of thousands of dollars less than their demonstrated financial need. If finances are a concern, don’t apply ED to NYU.</p>
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Why is it bad? Is it because I’ll have a harder shot at getting in, or I’ll definitely be unable to get out? </p>
<p>I’m still a little confused with what’ll happen if you can’t attend after ED. I know that you have to be able to prove that you’re financially unable to attend. But what does that even mean? Does it mean you don’t like their financial aid package? Does it mean you’d have to practically be in the lower class? or what? I’ve asked my counselor this and she doesn’t really know either due to her lack of experience…</p>
<p>"Why is it bad? Is it because I’ll have a harder shot at getting in, or I’ll definitely be unable to get out? "</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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<p>If you are good enough to have a chance of getting an ED acceptance from a school like NYU, you’re a strong enough student to be able to get good merit aid offers from colleges that offer that. However, by applying ED, you aren’t allowing yourself to take advantage of that possibility.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, it can be amazing how a school can shoot up to being your first choice if it offered you, for instance a large merit aid/scholarship package plus other perks such as a laptop or an international internship – the type of things that some merit aid offering colleges offer to their top applicants.</p>
<p>In general, withdrawing from ED for a reason the college doesn’t find acceptable will hurt you with equally ranked PRIVATE colleges, but won’t hurt you with public colleges because public colleges select students overwhelmingly based on stats and state of residence.</p>
<p>I believe that many students overestimate how much edge they can gain from applying ED. And they underestimate how important it is to compare financial aid packages from different schools. The highest transfer rate out of most schools is the ED students. They start wondering what could have been…</p>
<p>“The highest transfer rate out of most schools is the ED students”</p>
<p>source please?</p>
<p>So basically, ED is implying that you’d have to be very interested in the school AND be financially well off?</p>
<p>^exactly-----------</p>
<p>This is why schools like Harvard and UVA eliminated early decision. They felt it was unfair to lower-income students.</p>
<p>^Princeton as well. Though I’m not sure why they don’t do EA or SCEA like Yale and Stanford</p>
<p>I knew there was a third that did it with them, I just wasn’t sure, and didn’t want to give false information. </p>
<p>Well, perhaps they find it best if all applicants are considered at the same time?</p>
<p>Wow, that really is unfair. Kids who are poor and are accepted ED to their dream college are practically trapped in financial woes–unless the financial aid package is good.</p>
<p>"Wow, that really is unfair. Kids who are poor and are accepted ED to their dream college are practically trapped in financial woes–unless the financial aid package is good. "</p>
<p>That’s why colleges like Harvard don’t have ED.</p>
<p>However, most colleges don’t have the resources to provide financial aid to everyone who needs it, so for many colleges, ED is a great way of locking in students with the means to attend the college.</p>
<p>It’s important to realize that most people can’t afford to go to whatever college they wish, no matter what students say on College Confidential. Most people consider themselves lucky to be able to attend whatever public two or four-year university is nearest even if that means having to commute from home. </p>
<p>It wasn’t until probably the 1960s or late that college was viewed as something that one needn’t be rich to have to attend. Until WWII, Most people in this country didn’t even graduate from high school.</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered why Harvard doesn’t have ED or EA. I thought that maybe it just thought it was too prestigious for such policies, but now I see why.
Thanks for all the advice everyone! I think I’m going to go with RD now for NYU since my financial aid is most likely going to be -$10k. It’ll be good to see my options.</p>