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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think more people back out of ED than you may think. My husband and I saw a stat recently (wish I could remember where) that showed an ED rate for a school and those who were accepted ED and those who actually attended were quite different numbers.
I remember it because we had a discussion about how quite a few people must back out.
I thought that if you were accepted ED but did not get enough aid you could get out of the arrangement. 
We would follow the rules as I think that is appropriate but it seems reasonable for people to back out of ED if they can’t afford it.
Why do the schools have all the power? [/quote]

Lucky you think it's appropriate to honor the agreement you and your child and the school signed. Every school has a calculator so you can see how much it will cost you. Is it too much to ask that you use that before you apply ED? i just don't understand why people allow their children to apply to schools they can't afford. [/quote]

Some schools offer merit in using opaque formulas and don't offer merit pre-reads. If one of those school's is DC's first choice and they'll need merit go ahead and apply ED there and EA elsewhere. If they get in and get merit, great. If they get in without merit, they can go elsewhere [/quote]

You can’t withdraw on the basis of merit aid, just financial aid.  Colleges do not consider them to be the same thing.[/quote]

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