Early Decision ED is a very appealing application option. Students who apply early decision know their admission decision before the New Year and, if accepted, they are set free from the grueling college application process. For many students, knowing their college plans as soon as possible is a huge relief.
Applying early decision is very tempting; however, students must be cognizant of that to which they are agreeing. The early decision application is a binding contract where, by signing the agreement, a student is committing to enroll at a first-choice institution if accepted and then withdraw all applications to other schools.
Not only does the student sign the agreement, her parents and school counselor do as well. This is not a decision to be made lightly.
But what if a student changes his mind? If this is your dream school I presume it is because you applied ED , then persist as until the end. Well, this depends on what your reason is. A college I hope would not be so immoral as to ruin your chances at other colleges because of that.
The college may contact other schools and tell them that you rejected an early decision acceptance. A more selective school like Columbia that I used earlier will likely contact your guidance counselor and ask what happened. This means that the college will no longer trust your counselor and, therefore, not take any more applicants from your school.
This is something you can most definitely do. Anyways, back to the article. First of all, your guidance counselor would not let this happen. Even if you somehow got away with it, when the colleges find out, your application or acceptance if you got in will be revoked from both. I think that ED is something that you should only choose to do if everything lines up.
First, you should absolutely love this school. You should think with both your heart and brain, making sure you genuinely love the school and what they represent but also know that you will get a good academic experience from them. A college may also be willing to allow you to withdraw from the agreement if you have an emergency, such as a personal or family illness, accident, or death.
In that case, you should explain the situation to the admissions office. You might be able to take a gap year, or the college could allow you to withdraw entirely. The biggest advantage to applying Early Decision is that your chances of acceptance are generally higher than they are when you apply Regular Decision.
Find out your cost of attendance. If you need financial aid and want to apply ED, you should first find out your expected family contribution.
The catch was—and still is—that they must attend if admitted early. Now that the Early Decision phenomenon has caught on, there are so many different early admission options at various schools. Most, if not all, schools that offer ED plans are signed on to a shared statement of Principles and Ethics. The Ivy League schools have a common Ivy League agreement, which makes each school agree to the terms of early notification plans regardless of what specific plans each offers.
Here's what Dartmouth has to say:. In short, schools are very careful about not taking students who have already committed in a binding fashion to another school. Failing to follow the common guidelines in the Early Decision agreements could result in serious consequences for a school. For example, a school could be punished by not being allowed to participate in the Common Application or another similar application system in the future, or could face punitive measures from the College Board.
Information Sharing Between Colleges : Many colleges, including the Ivy League schools and a consortium of about 30 colleges, share lists of students admitted through Early Decision programs. Katharine Fretwell also explained that schools share lists of students who try to back out of Early Decision agreements for ostensibly valid reasons like inadequate financial aid packages in order to ensure that people are not hiding behind a manufactured excuse to choose another school.
Your School Counselor: Your school counselor or some other school official will be required to sign on to your Early Decision agreement. Scroll up to see the highlighted portion in the signature block of the example from Duke.
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