Expected timeline to withdraw applications after ED decisions

[Anonymous]

My child just received an email from Tulane kindly reminding them to withdraw their EA application if they have committed ED elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Within ten minutes of receiving their ED acceptance last year, our child clicked accept and had withdrawn all other applications.

Presumably you don't apply ED if you aren't planning to attend, so why wait?

NP and +1 to this. Families shouldn't use ED if they don't intend for the student to go to that school, period. I get the whole "but we can wait for the financial aid information first" etc. but honestly, why raise a kid's hopees and have them apply ED to a place you cannot possibly afford unless it makes a certain type of aid offer? Talk about adding to your kid's stress level. Our DC did ED2, got in, withdrew all other offers that same night, because DC understood that ED means "I will go here no matter who else says yes to me." And bluntly, aid was not a dealbreaker.

Those who are shrugging off withdrawing other applications after an ED acceptance are jerks who don't give a s**t that their kid, sitting on a slot, is potentially causing problems and stress for other applicants. You don't care about strangers you'll never meet, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Within ten minutes of receiving their ED acceptance last year, our child clicked accept and had withdrawn all other applications.

Presumably you don't apply ED if you aren't planning to attend, so why wait?

NP and +1 to this. Families shouldn't use ED if they don't intend for the student to go to that school, period. I get the whole "but we can wait for the financial aid information first" etc. but honestly, why raise a kid's hopees and have them apply ED to a place you cannot possibly afford unless it makes a certain type of aid offer? Talk about adding to your kid's stress level. Our DC did ED2, got in, withdrew all other offers that same night, because DC understood that ED means "I will go here no matter who else says yes to me." And bluntly, aid was not a dealbreaker.

Those who are shrugging off withdrawing other applications after an ED acceptance are jerks who don't give a s**t that their kid, sitting on a slot, is potentially causing problems and stress for other applicants. You don't care about strangers you'll never meet, I guess.

You can afford to be smug about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a more complicated issue then people are making it sound, at least for an applicant applying for FA.

My DC will get an ED decision on Friday afternoon. The school is need blind. The school also asked for the CSS documents and we submitted them all, including in response to follow up requests. But the application portal shows that not all the financial documents requested have even been uploaded from College Board by the school, although they were submitted weeks ago. We called the telephone number for questions on FA listed on the portal and they assured us there is no problem with our submission and they are just backed up and haven't been able to process things yet. They said the ED decision is totally separate. They had no estimate of when the CSS submission would be processed. So I don't see how a child in that situation will be expected to "immediately" withdraw any other applications if there isn't even any clarity on when an FA decision will be made.

Let us know. It could be they are only processing admitted students. Or maybe there will be a lag. My DC’s Ed1 slac last week provided the award with the decision. But that might be more difficult for a larger Ed pool like UVA. Is this a larger school?

This is a big school. I suppose that is possible my child will not be admitted so they stopped processing the FA but then the fact that the two sides of the house do actually talk to each other could suggest they aren’t entirely need blind as advertised, and they were fully lying when we called aand were told the two processes are completely separate and they just hadn’t had the opportunity to processes it yet. I would have expected them just to say they had what they needed or something. I guess we’ll see.

Reporting back on this. My DC was accepted today! Hurrah! We did receive the financial offer at the same time. The financial offer is a decision that we do not qualify for any aid. Apparently they did not need to download all of the documents to make that decision. DC will immediately withdraw other applications. And to be clear to the folks that are saying they can compare offers after signing an ED agreement, that is wrong, DC will be rejecting offers from multiple schools that have already offered sizable merit packages. I agree you cannot compare options after signing an EDagreement, my only point was that you have a right to see the financial offer beofre you commit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Within ten minutes of receiving their ED acceptance last year, our child clicked accept and had withdrawn all other applications.

Presumably you don't apply ED if you aren't planning to attend, so why wait?

NP and +1 to this. Families shouldn't use ED if they don't intend for the student to go to that school, period. I get the whole "but we can wait for the financial aid information first" etc. but honestly, why raise a kid's hopees and have them apply ED to a place you cannot possibly afford unless it makes a certain type of aid offer? Talk about adding to your kid's stress level. Our DC did ED2, got in, withdrew all other offers that same night, because DC understood that ED means "I will go here no matter who else says yes to me." And bluntly, aid was not a dealbreaker.

Those who are shrugging off withdrawing other applications after an ED acceptance are jerks who don't give a s**t that their kid, sitting on a slot, is potentially causing problems and stress for other applicants. You don't care about strangers you'll never meet, I guess.

You can afford to be smug about this.

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You don't know that at all. Are you this nasty and judgmental in real life? I didn't think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TBH I don't think anyone is paying that much attention.
-- signed, parent of ED kid last year who took several weeks to withdraw everything and even forgot to pull one

Dick move. Teach your kid better manners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Within ten minutes of receiving their ED acceptance last year, our child clicked accept and had withdrawn all other applications.

Presumably you don't apply ED if you aren't planning to attend, so why wait?

NP and +1 to this. Families shouldn't use ED if they don't intend for the student to go to that school, period. I get the whole "but we can wait for the financial aid information first" etc. but honestly, why raise a kid's hopees and have them apply ED to a place you cannot possibly afford unless it makes a certain type of aid offer? Talk about adding to your kid's stress level. Our DC did ED2, got in, withdrew all other offers that same night, because DC understood that ED means "I will go here no matter who else says yes to me." And bluntly, aid was not a dealbreaker.

Those who are shrugging off withdrawing other applications after an ED acceptance are jerks who don't give a s**t that their kid, sitting on a slot, is potentially causing problems and stress for other applicants. You don't care about strangers you'll never meet, I guess.

You can afford to be smug about this.

I'm not the PP.... but to be honest....the people who try to cheat the ED system are typically not people who are shopping for aid. The worst offenders I have seen have no financial need at all, and no scruples either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a more complicated issue then people are making it sound, at least for an applicant applying for FA.

My DC will get an ED decision on Friday afternoon. The school is need blind. The school also asked for the CSS documents and we submitted them all, including in response to follow up requests. But the application portal shows that not all the financial documents requested have even been uploaded from College Board by the school, although they were submitted weeks ago. We called the telephone number for questions on FA listed on the portal and they assured us there is no problem with our submission and they are just backed up and haven't been able to process things yet. They said the ED decision is totally separate. They had no estimate of when the CSS submission would be processed. So I don't see how a child in that situation will be expected to "immediately" withdraw any other applications if there isn't even any clarity on when an FA decision will be made.

Let us know. It could be they are only processing admitted students. Or maybe there will be a lag. My DC’s Ed1 slac last week provided the award with the decision. But that might be more difficult for a larger Ed pool like UVA. Is this a larger school?

This is a big school. I suppose that is possible my child will not be admitted so they stopped processing the FA but then the fact that the two sides of the house do actually talk to each other could suggest they aren’t entirely need blind as advertised, and they were fully lying when we called aand were told the two processes are completely separate and they just hadn’t had the opportunity to processes it yet. I would have expected them just to say they had what they needed or something. I guess we’ll see.

Reporting back on this. My DC was accepted today! Hurrah! We did receive the financial offer at the same time. The financial offer is a decision that we do not qualify for any aid. Apparently they did not need to download all of the documents to make that decision. DC will immediately withdraw other applications. And to be clear to the folks that are saying they can compare offers after signing an ED agreement, that is wrong, DC will be rejecting offers from multiple schools that have already offered sizable merit packages. I agree you cannot compare options after signing an EDagreement, my only point was that you have a right to see the financial offer beofre you commit.

That explains it. It didn’t quite make sense. Congratulations on the admission!