<p>I have a question. I under stand that on may 1, you paid your admissions fee to basically hold your spot for that college. My question is, what if I sent it to 2 schools and decided to pick the school I wanted to go to later? </p>
<p>For an example. Lets say I got accepted into Umich and NYU. Than I go to umich orientation and nyu isnt till later. Then once I go to NYU I decided I like it more than umich. Can I cancel my umich admission even if I rolled in classes? </p>
<p>I mean, if i didn't pay yet, i would assume I could right?</p>
<p>Secondly. In terms of financial aid, is it possible to ask for parent loan to both school, and end up rejecting 1 of them after wards?</p>
<p>When it comes down to it, there is no way that a university would be able to force you to pay tuition if you never actually attended. But I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some nasty fees you consented to pay by sending the admissions fee; after all, if you don’t attend a university you said you would, they have lost both the tuition money and the student they would have taken off the waitlist.</p>
<p>No, you can’t do that. Both schools could possibly rescind their admission if they should find out. </p>
<p>This has been discussed many times on CC. The analogy I like to give is you can’t be engaged to two people at the same time(you shouldn’t have deposit to two different schools at the same time). It is different if you were to get off one waitlist and you should decide to accept it. You would then notify your current school of your decision, and accept the waitlisted school.</p>
<p>Your admission is also pending on your final transcript of your senior year to be sent out by your GC. There is no reputable GC that would send out more than one final transcript.</p>
<p>To have multiple deposits is considered to be a very unethical thing to do. Many top tier schools would possibly punish your school by not admitting students from your school for a while. Admission is very competitive now. It would be unthinkable to hold on to a spot that someone else could have.</p>
<p>^^^^
Above poster is correct. I thought that you meant you had actually done this already; if you haven’t, do not even CONSIDER it. </p>
<p>By sending the admissions fee, you are effectively agreeing to a contract which says you will go to the school. All colleges I’ve heard of have a provision that you can cancel your enrollment if you can’t get sufficient financial aid, but that is the ONLY situation in which you are allowed to do so. If you just try to “unaccept”, you may not have to pay full tuition, but you may still have to pay a rather hefty fee. And like Oldfort said, you run a serious risk of having your admission at the other school revoked as well.</p>
<p>That doesn’t even consider the moral aspect of it. How would you feel if you ALMOST got off the waitlist at your dream school, and then some of the people who had spots decided they didn’t really want to go?</p>
<p>May 1 is probably the first big decision deadline most teens face. It’s a very grown-up fork in the road with long-term financial and life consderations. I understand that it must be intimidating when you’re 17 or 18 years old. </p>
<p>However, having said that, if you’re not finished with research and visits and “trying it out” by May 1, then you probably aren’t ready for college at all. The right, proper, correct, moral and ethical thing to do is put on the big-kid pants and commit to ONE school by May first.</p>
<p>Actually that’s the reason why I did it. Neither gave me enough money, therefore I paid both, hoping that I would receive parent loans. However neither was guaranteed. Thus if one gave me parent loans, I would go there instead. This is not because I like 1 school over the other, simply because of money issues. I was also not aware of paying multiple may 1 fees was illegal by my school or colleges.</p>
<p>Also, what if I was w/l and got accepted? how would they know whether or not i was accepted to the w/l school before may1?</p>
<p>Don’t think of it as “well how would they find out?” There are various ways they could, and if they DO, your admission at both schools will most likely be revoked. Even worse, if they find out later that you did this, you could be EXPELLED. I would advise finding a way to cancel one of the admissions pretty quickly.</p>
<p>how did you manage to have your high school send final transcripts and certification of graduation to two schools? Our school office will send only to one school. I’ve never heard of a college that will let you matriculate without having received the final transcript and certification.</p>
<p>But what if they couldn’t offer me parent loan, thus i could not afford college? either way, I wouldn’t be able to go. Secondly, what if I was waitlisted? People do get w/l and not receive an admission till past may1.</p>
<p>That’s why you contact the financial aid offices at both schools and ask them to reconsider your financial aid package before the May 1 deadline.</p>
<p>Students waitlisted at other colleges first have to commit to one school. If they are accepted at their waitlisted college(s), they are allowed to withdraw from the school they committed to previously.</p>
<p>If you can’t afford to go to either school, then you really need to call the financial aid offices and try to work something out with both of the schools, otherwise you might be in trouble. It kind of sounds to me like you can afford both schools but just can’t decide. Realistically, I havent heard of many cases where universities rescinded offers when students send in the admissions deposit to 2 schools. I do agree however that it is very unethical to do this because you simply can’t decide on one or the other. </p>
<p>I had to do that myself 2 years ago when I was about to go to college. I had my top two choices, U of I and U Mich, I got into Illinois in Feb but Michigan had waitlisted me, so I accepted admission into Illinois, but had to wait until late June to find out if I was accepted into Michigan. If I had gotten into UMich I most likely would have accepted and just declined the Illinois admission and told their admissions office the truth.</p>