When to Apply Early Decision (ED) To refresh your memory, ED is a binding program that stipulates that if accepted to a college, you are obligated to attend.
Under a "selective binding" program started in 2003 by Eliot Spitzer, then the state attorney general, and the National Association of Attorneys General, all tobacco advertising was removed from the versions of Newsweek, Time and U.S. News and World Report that were sent to schools.
This was the year when the frenzy to gain early admission to the nation's most selective colleges seemed likely to subside, at least in part because a student admitted under a binding early program cannot seek competing financial aid offers as leverage to negotiate a better package.
Before the adoption of the new policy, someone who applied to a binding early program like Yale's was not permitted to apply to nonbinding programs like Harvard's.
Shareholder rebellions are rare; they would probably be rarer still under a binding regime.
At issue are Mr. Al-Arian's obligations under a binding collective bargaining agreement.
Under our law, with Mr Assange having exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden.
Sixthly, more measures have been taken against foreign fighters in Syria, under a binding resolution of the U.N. Security Council, which includes Hezbollah fighters.
Williams, which has a binding early admission program, received 73 fewer applications this fall, a drop of 13.5percentt.
If you do apply to a binding early decision program, do visit the college first to make sure it is the one for you.
