If I get accepted Early Decision for another college do I have to withdraw my USNA application?

You should ask the college if the consideration for merit scholarships are the same between ED, EA, and RD.
At Case Western, for example, they are all the same.
 
Capt MJ said:
Just for the heck of it, since I haven’t applied to college since the 20th c., I looked up my own alma mater’s Early Decision info on the Admissions page.

It’s crystal clear what the rules of the game are. The Early Decision info is followed by the Early Action info. Equally clear.
It seems very real to me.

Here’s the ED text:

“When you know, you know. If you have decided without a doubt that Wake Forest is your first-choice college, you may apply Early Decision or Early Decision II. Early Decision applicants are given some preference in the admissions process. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of applicants apply Early Decision each year; those students made up about 50% of the incoming class in 2017.

Under the Early Decision plan:
You may submit an Early Decision application any time after completion of your junior year, but no later than November 15.
Wake Forest must be your first choice and only active Early Decision application (you may submit regular decision applications to other institutions).
You, your parents, and your counselor must sign the Early Decision Agreement agreeing to enroll if admitted and to withdraw regular-decision applications from other colleges upon acceptance to Wake Forest.
Decisions are made on a rolling basis. Applicants are notified by mail only. A $500 nonrefundable deposit is due within two weeks of acceptance notification.”

Now - you’ve had a pile of negative opinions heaved your way. Focus on what you need to do to clean up the situation you created and get back to a better path.
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CaptMJ, you have once again provided excellent action oriented advice. By acknowledging the negative feedback without piling on more, you gave this applicant a way to correct this error. I’m sure they now know what they need to do.
 
OK, I am officially no longer ED in any application now. I went as far as to email the admissions counselor to let them know as well, just in case since they've been sitting on ED for a good while now. I really appreciate the brutal advice.
 
Nomak54 said:
OK, I am officially no longer ED in any application now. I went as far as to email the admissions counselor to let them know as well, just in case since they've been sitting on ED for a good while now. I really appreciate the brutal advice.
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Good work, Nomak. You're odds of admission to some schools may decrease but your credibility and character has increased immeasurably!
 
Nomak54 said:
I mean I knew what ED was I just didn't read the fine print that said you could only apply to ONE school. I was thinking "well what are they going to do if I decline? Arrest me?"
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If you applied ED, your parent would have to have signed off as well acknowledging that they are financially committed if you are accepted. I know of someone who tried to back out of an ED (parent was a lawyer) and they were not successful in doing so. I have a feeling you are mixing up early action with early decision and there is a major difference. I am not at all sure that getting an appointment would get you out of an ED contract. A contract is a legally binding obligation to pay. You should rescind the ED applications before decisions come out.
 
It's very difficult for anyone here to give you great advice because we are viewing everything through a prism. If any SA is your first choice, you should not apply ED to any school. You could apply EA.

I suggest you consult your school college/career counselor and show him/her whatever "paper work" you filled out. Explain the situation. Figure out what you've done and what, if anything, you need to do going forward and how to do it.
 
I spoke with a RICE admissions officer over the phone and he said I would have to withdraw my USCGA application if I am accepted. Is this accurate?
 
GenericUserName said:
I spoke with a RICE admissions officer over the phone and he said I would have to withdraw my USCGA application if I am accepted. Is this accurate?
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Yes, IF YOU APPLY EARLY DECISION. Do not apply Early Decision if your first choice is USCGA. If Rice is your first choice over every other school and you will go there if accepted, then you can apply Early Decision. I would recommend you read what Early Decision means before applying for it. The following is literally from Rice University and took 4 seconds to google:

Early Decision Plan—Early Decision is a binding decision plan designed for students who have selected Rice as their first choice. Students may initiate applications to other colleges under nonbinding plans but must withdraw those applications if admitted to Rice.

Early Decision applicants must complete the required standardized testing prior to or by the November testing dates in their senior year. All other materials should be submitted by November 1. Admission notices will be mailed by mid-December. The committee will admit, defer, or deny Early Decision applicants. Deferred applicants are considered with the Regular Decision pool.

It is important to note that, if admitted under Early Decision, a candidate must withdraw all other college applications, may not submit any additional applications after accepting the offer, and must accept Rice’s offer of admission by submitting a $300 nonrefundable deposit by January 1. An additional $100 housing deposit is required of those desiring on-campus accommodations.
 
SAparent2023 said:
Yes, IF YOU APPLY EARLY DECISION. Do not apply Early Decision if your first choice is USCGA. If Rice is your first choice over every other school and you will go there if accepted, then you can apply Early Decision. I would recommend you read what Early Decision means before applying for it. The following is literally from Rice University and took 4 seconds to google:

Early Decision Plan—Early Decision is a binding decision plan designed for students who have selected Rice as their first choice. Students may initiate applications to other colleges under nonbinding plans but must withdraw those applications if admitted to Rice.

Early Decision applicants must complete the required standardized testing prior to or by the November testing dates in their senior year. All other materials should be submitted by November 1. Admission notices will be mailed by mid-December. The committee will admit, defer, or deny Early Decision applicants. Deferred applicants are considered with the Regular Decision pool.

It is important to note that, if admitted under Early Decision, a candidate must withdraw all other college applications, may not submit any additional applications after accepting the offer, and must accept Rice’s offer of admission by submitting a $300 nonrefundable deposit by January 1. An additional $100 housing deposit is required of those desiring on-campus accommodations.
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Thank you for the prompt responses.
 
Each college has its own policy, but applying ED will generally not reduce the amount of financial aid offered from the ED school. The school has a vested interest in an applicant offered ED admission and does not want to get turned down for offering insufficient financial aid.

However, applying ED will prevent an applicant from comparing financial aid packages from multiple institutions and selecting the most affordable. If obtaining the lowest price, as opposed to an affordable price, is a factor then ED is not the way to go.
 
Hashbrowns and eggs said:
Service academies should have an ED option
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You may be thinking about this all wrong, along the lines that Service Academies are "colleges". Service Academies are Leadership Laboratories, first and foremost.
Last year, they extended 1,373 offers and received 1,209 new Plebes out of those offers. That's about 88%.
Of the remaining 12%, many of those candidates went to another Service Academy - or decided that ROTC was a better fit for them - so the percentage of placement within this Leadership Laboratory may actually be as high as 95%.
A smaller percentage decided to go with really good offers (often full-ride scholarships) to "regular" colleges. Many of them may even go through their four years at those colleges and decide to do OCS after they graduate, contributing a few more to the officer ranks. In the end though, most will become officers who happen to have earned Bachelor's degrees along the way. Remember also that (in USNA's case) they turned away about 1,700 triple-qualified applicants with nominations when they gave out those 1,373 offers in the first place. Will many of those turned away go the ROTC route? Absolutely. They end up with more officers in the end, than they extended offers to in the beginning.

These applicants already want to be at the academy. They have demonstrated their resolve by following through with what is often a 10-month application process, to even be considered.
Service Academies don't need Early Decision. ED is a way for colleges to ensure that they get students who will accept admission if it is offered.

The past has shown that service academies already have that commitment from applicants. They are already ahead of a lot of colleges that way - because to their applicants - the degree is secondary to why they want to be there in the first place. To further tilt the playing field in their favor, they issue a very small amount of LOAs to get those few applicants who are on the fence or have the ability to not only get into top colleges, but to get full-ride scholarships to them as well.

Civilian colleges wish they had that kind of draw, because it's a business to them.
 
OK so to throw another college decision term into the mix- this one threw me for a loop with my other DD's application "Restrictive Early Action" I almost had a conniption when I saw her tick that box at very expensive college, thinking it was binding! apparently that university has this classification in its mix which basically says "a Restrictive Early Action to _____ may not apply to any college or university in their binding Early Decision program."
Phew- quite confusing! Of course I was told that I'm 'old' and don't know what I am doing when I practically grabbed the mouse from her to prevent from clicking.
And as another aside- I don't know if it has changed, but when my older DD applied to Yale ED, while also waiting to hear from USNA, according to their admissions officer after her interview, a service academy acceptance after their admission acceptance was an exception to relieve you of the 'binding' ED. And, since she ended up at neither, but landed a great NROTC unit elsewhere it all worked out anyway.
 
Whew! I'm glad my days of dealing with this stuff personally are done.
 
Service academies should have an ED option
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They can't -- in the same timeframe as civilian colleges -- due to the nom process. By law, noms aren't due to SAs (other than USCGA which has no nom process) until Jan. 31. Since a nom is required for an appointment, the SA can't guarantee anyone an appointment until they know that person has a nom.

Another reason they can't is the medical requirement (which civilian colleges don't have). They can't guarantee anyone an appointment until they are medically qualified, which could include a waiver.

This is the reason LOAs were developed. It's as close as a SA can get to a "guarantee," given the legal requirements of a SA.
 
While this thread is a year old, the issue may arise again, and I wanted to add some thoughts here.

Reviewing some of the comments, I think a few of you were being a little too harsh, perhaps because you don't totally understand ED. From the Common App ED agreement, "Should a student who applies for financial aid not be offered an award that makes attendance possible, the student may decline the offer of admission and be released from the Early Decision commitment." Thus, contrary to some advice here, there is NOTHING contradictory about simultaneously applying to one institution ED and simultaneously pursuing a service academy appointment. Now if you are accepted ED to the institution, then you will be required to review their financial aid package, perhaps even haggle over it (see linked article), THEN decide whether or not to accept the ED offer. If you accept it, then you should withdraw your service academy application unless that is an exception to that institution's ED program, which it might be. But you have to ask them this. If you decline the ED offer, then charlie mike on the service academy application.

I welcome contrary thoughts, but I believe what I just described is entirely ethical and within the spirit of the program.

www.forbes.com

Can Students Get Out Of ED?

Early Decision (ED) notifications will be released within the next few weeks and many students might start to double guess their binding decision. Here's what you need to know.
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