<p>“I know that you have to be able to prove that you’re financially unable to attend.”</p>
<p>Nonsense; you already submitted the pertinent financial data they required. Just imagine that a school didn’t accept your “proof”; are they somehow going to compel attendance, and then expel you when you can’t pay the bill? Imagine the horrible PR for any school that tried this. Now imagine why you’ve never heard of this happening (pretty easy, huh?).</p>
<p>Here’s the Common Application ED FA rule:
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<p>So there’s no danger in applying ED to NYU if you need FA, but only top students get enough to support attendance. Most should be prepared to not get enough FA to support attendance.</p>
<p>“They felt it was unfair to lower-income students.”</p>
<p>They also recognized that lower-income students were unnecessarily afraid to apply ED, falsely imagining that they could somehow be trapped into attending a school they couldn’t afford. Most schools haven’t given up, and continue to encourage top low-income students to apply ED, and provide the “out” given in the Common App agreement. Such schools like to lock in top talent, in addition to the money they like to lock in from full list price payers.</p>
<p>Does anyone have information to prove that is why Harvard ended ED. I am not sure I agree with this but I would be interested in seeing if that was the real reason. The Ivy’s are known to be need blind and they certainly have the money to offer students with need. It is also publicized what each of the schools consider “in need of aid to be.” </p>
<p>I wish the myth of top schools not providing necessary aid to students would be clearer and more widely publicized so that kids would not be afraid of being trapped by ED agreements.</p>