<p>As far as I know, if you were accepted at Brown as ED, you are expected to withdraw your application from all other schools. Is that correct?</p>
<p>That is correct, and frankly you should have done it already. It’s unfair to your competition at other schools.</p>
<p>ccuser18, I agree. My sister applied to ED, she was deferred (along with another friend). However, another person from their class was accepted, but didn’t withdraw from any of the other schools on their list. Which probably means that other person is still competing for all the other schools they’re applying to. Very unfair, but can anything be done?</p>
<p>if you think about it it actually isnt unfair. Its not like they are taking your spot. Thats the whole reason they have a waitlist. To give spots to people who decline them.</p>
<p>Although i do think that you should have already withdrawn ur apps…</p>
<p>I believe Brown requires you to withdraw from other schools, not having done so essentially violates your “contract” with Brown (probably the same with other schools). Why would you want to put another person through the waitlisting agony?</p>
<p>^Yeah, but no one wants to be waitlisted. You have to send more info, wait around, and be stressed.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, why does it matter to you if this other person has withdrawn from other schools or not?</p>
<p>@h2olovr, I thought I explained in my earlier response, I believe this person might be competition for my sis in other schools. Or is that assumption incorrect?</p>
<p>From Brown’s website
This is an ethical responsibility. Withdraw from you other schools. Ccuser is correct. Its overdue</p>
<p>aww you really gotta withdrawn the other apps. i think being waitlisted is the worst thing… even worse than being denied. at least when youre denied, thats that. but when youre waitlisted , you wait and wait and send more things and wait some more and then you might STILL be denied.</p>
<p>I wish this person would have the decency and ethics to withdraw…but they haven’t. Noone from their school wants to stoop low enough to be a snitch and call Brown…not that Brown would pay attention anyway.</p>
<p>^My suggestion is to talk to the student’s guidance counselor. I would assume the adult would promptly get the student to withdraw her other apps.</p>
<p>And to echo what other people have said, even if in the long-run there is no harm done, each school this person gets accepted to RD equals another person who has to take the long route and get in off the wait list. That is why this is meant to be prevented.</p>
<p>Seems to me the GC should have helped the student withdraw apps.</p>
<p>I put this in the same category as lying on your application. You may not get caught, but if you do you’re toast. Either way, you are a scumbag if you don’t withdraw. If folks think the schools don’t share lists of students, they are kidding themselves. It may not happen during the admissions season (to avoid charges of collusion or anti-trust violations) but after-the-fact sharing for statistical or comparison purposes is not out of the question. You may even find someone with scruples enough (and time enough) in the Brown admissions dept to use you as an example. We can always hope.</p>
<p>@needfairplay: I’d say call Brown and rat them out. It’s the real world and they have not earned the loyalty implied by not calling.</p>
<p>Several Ivies send a list of all ED accepted students to the other Ivies. You could lose you acceptance at Brown if you haven’t withdrawn other applications.</p>
<p>Guys, the OP is not the one who reneged on the contract, so let’s stop blaming him/her. We all know withdrawing is the right thing to do.</p>
<p>I think you SHOULD do something about this situation. It’s just wrong… Try to get in touch with the student’s guidance counselor and explain the issue. If that doesn’t work, then yes, I would call Brown.</p>
<p>I would definitely tell Brown–you are merely the messenger and not honoring an ED acceptance is about as corrupt as can be. The "noive!’ This is snitch-worthy, fer sure.</p>
<p>No other school will touch a student that backed out of a binding ED contract. Better hope Brown doesn’t reject you now because of this. You could be pretty well screwed.</p>
<p>It seems like no one takes the time to read the previous posts, including the OP’s and quomodo’s. </p>
<p>The OP is not the one who was accepted ED, but rather a student in his sister’s class.</p>
<p><<<It seems like no one takes the time to read the previous posts, including the OP’s and quomodo’s. </p>
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<p>I read it the OP and “got” that the OP is not the offender, that the disreputable person is someone in his sister’s class. Not vilifying the OP, at all, here.</p>