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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, a lot of families price shop for college; but a decent proportion of us don't. Most schools that have ED don't give merit anyway, so at those schools you will be paying what the net price calculator determines you can pay whether you get in ED or RD. The only difference is the higher odds in ED.[/quote]

Exactly.  I guess it wouldn't make sense to ED a school that has a reputation for giving a ton of merit aid.  But most of the schools where people ED don't give out merit aid, and ED doesn't affect financial aid, so it doesn't make much of a difference.  I have a few relatives that did ED at Brown, and are there on generous financial aid packages.

My kid also did EA some schools, and got a really good merit aid package from one school that she did EA. I think Pitt is another one that will give out merit aid for the EA applicants.

For us the nicest thing about ED was that she only did 3 applications rather than a LOT more -- it saved so much work and anxiety in December and January and into the spring.  [/quote]

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