Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adding — Does everybody abide by this? No, some people are ethically bankrupt and insist that because it isn’t a legal contract, they can therefore do whatever they want, regardless of what they agreed to do.

well, it's def not a legal contract. run the NPC and if you're good w that number, go forth. if they come back with a higher number, feel free to walk away. that's the agreement. both sides have to carry their own weight here. some colleges dont update their NPC or dont add enough info to make it accurate - those aren't your problems

PP you’re quoting and yes — the only (ethically) allowed reason to break the ED agreement is if the tuition doesn’t match up with the NPC.

And if you get into the ED school but are still waiting for the financial package, you’d don’t have to pull other apps until you get that financial package.

Technically you can also add sea change of financial circumstances — but it has to something dramatic, not just that my stocks went down 3%…

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adding — Does everybody abide by this? No, some people are ethically bankrupt and insist that because it isn’t a legal contract, they can therefore do whatever they want, regardless of what they agreed to do.

well, it's def not a legal contract. run the NPC and if you're good w that number, go forth. if they come back with a higher number, feel free to walk away. that's the agreement. both sides have to carry their own weight here. some colleges dont update their NPC or dont add enough info to make it accurate - those aren't your problems

PP you’re quoting and yes — the only (ethically) allowed reason to break the ED agreement is if the tuition doesn’t match up with the NPC.

And if you get into the ED school but are still waiting for the financial package, you’d don’t have to pull other apps until you get that financial package.

Anonymous wrote:Adding — Does everybody abide by this? No, some people are ethically bankrupt and insist that because it isn’t a legal contract, they can therefore do whatever they want, regardless of what they agreed to do.

It isn't a legal contract. However, enough people behave ethically, under the ED agreement, that colleges continue to offer ED.

Anonymous wrote:I dont know if that's true for international schools.

but it is true for US public schools

It’s true that if you ED to a school in the US, you agree to withdraw all other applications if you get in, including those to international schools. The international schools may not care, but that what you’re agreeing to do.

If there is a version of ED when applying to international schools, you’d have to check exactly what that entails.

Anonymous wrote:So I know you can apply to a private school ED and, according to the school's website at least, also apply RD to public or international school.

Does that mean if you get into this college ED, you have to pull the public and international apps? Or could you end up deciding between the Private and your state flagship or international in the end

What the PP said is correct. You agree to withdraw all other apps and enroll at the ED school.

Note that applying ED does not prevent you from also applying EA to any school that offers unrestricted EA.

I suspect you may have been confusing ED with Single Choice Early Action. Schools with SCEA have a restriction that prevents you from also applying EA to privates, though there are exceptions. There are also schools with restrictions on their EA that prevent you from applying ED anywhere.

Anonymous wrote:Adding — Does everybody abide by this? No, some people are ethically bankrupt and insist that because it isn’t a legal contract, they can therefore do whatever they want, regardless of what they agreed to do.

well, it's def not a legal contract. run the NPC and if you're good w that number, go forth. if they come back with a higher number, feel free to walk away. that's the agreement. both sides have to carry their own weight here. some colleges dont update their NPC or dont add enough info to make it accurate - those aren't your problems

I dont know if that's true for international schools.

but it is true for US public schools

Adding — Does everybody abide by this? No, some people are ethically bankrupt and insist that because it isn’t a legal contract, they can therefore do whatever they want, regardless of what they agreed to do.

Anonymous wrote:So I know you can apply to a private school ED and, according to the school's website at least, also apply RD to public or international school.

Does that mean if you get into this college ED, you have to pull the public and international apps? Or could you end up deciding between the Private and your state flagship or international in the end

When you ED, you agree to pull any other applications (or turn down any admits received in the meantime) to ANY other schools if you get into the ED school. You can EA or RD to any schools you want, but you have to withdraw/turn them down if you get in ED.

So I know you can apply to a private school ED and, according to the school's website at least, also apply RD to public or international school.

Does that mean if you get into this college ED, you have to pull the public and international apps? Or could you end up deciding between the Private and your state flagship or international in the end