Hopeful Plebe Mom
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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.
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.www.forbes.com
It says right in the article:
- You can only apply to one college early decision. The rest you can apply under early action and regular admission. Note – restrictive early action is not allowed.