Binding Early Decision

Defending Early Decision Policies

January 10, 2022

There he goes again. In a tirade in The New York Times entitled “Merit Aid (or Lack Thereof) Makes Early Decision Ever Murkier,” Ron Lieber writes “Early decision isn’t binding, and Northeastern should say so on its website, using those same italics that are already there. (It is indeed as …

Dissecting the Argument Against Applying Early Decision

November 27, 2021

So many high school seniors across America and around the world choose not to apply to a school through an Early Decision policy because they’re not ready to make a binding commitment to attend an institution. They need time. They want to weigh their options. An apple might fall from …

Early Decision Commitments

December 25, 2019

The National Association for College Admission Counseling, an organization which we belong to, recently announced some changes that will alter the way some universities choose to do business. The changes by NACAC come in response to a Department of Justice probe, one we’ve reported on extensively, in which the organization …

College Applicants Should Not Fear Commitment

August 29, 2018

“My son doesn’t want to apply Early because he’s not ready to commit to any given school.” It’s a statement we hear quite often during free consultations with prospective clients. And it’s a statement that drives us bonkers. As we have long expressed on the pages of our college admissions …

Colleges Encouraging Students to Break Binding Commitments

August 28, 2018

There’s a lawsuit brewing in college admissions and, no, this one has nothing to do with Harvard University. In this latest suit, Mercy College has filed a complaint against Long Island University for using confidential information to poach committed students. As Mercy alleges, LIU hired a former dean of Mercy’s …