<p>yes robyrm i was just about to say...
play the money card</p>
<p>Doubt the money card would fly...really. If this is a real situation, I think this boy should just withdraw from both schools-- apply elsewhere, and hope none of the schools he applies to RD get wind of this. I mean what good is it to have a 750 on your verbal SAT (or whatever) and then not be able to "get" the true meaning of early decision! </p>
<p>But the other element, again if this is real, is what was going on with the GC office? I mean, I can see a situation where a kid applies ED somewhere, in the meantime submits RD applications, and then someone "forgets" to withdraw the completed RD applications after the kid gets in ED. That is an error of omission. Letting a kid apply to 2 schools ED is an error of commission...just doesn't reflect well on the GC office-- again, if this is true.</p>
<p>I still have my doubts...however.</p>
<p>Well word is...somethings worked out ..but w/e - Its not my predicament to deal with, I just was asking becuase I couldn't find anything on any search engines or anything on the consequences of breaking an ED agreement. Oh Well, he wants me to drop it so I shall.</p>
<p>hey i was wondering what happened exactly? because i was wondering how william and mary deals with kids not following the binding early decision agreement. thanks.</p>
<p>lol your friend is ridiculous</p>
<p>"Your friend was particularly foolish to apply this way to a school that has an honor code (UVa has one -- I don't know about W&M)."</p>
<p>W & M does indeed have an honor code, the oldest in the nation. It's taken as seriously at W & M as it is at UVA. If the situation the OP describes did indeed occur (I agree with those who find it unlikely), the honor violation alone would disqualify the student for acceptance.</p>
<p>As an alum of W&M, I know for a fact that if they found out about this, they would immediately rescind his offer of admission. Breaking the honor code is a serious offense at the first school in the nation to have an honor code!</p>
<p>What an idiot. W&M will call UVa or UVa will call W&M and they will both flush his acceptances and give them to someone else more deserving.</p>
<p>I'm very interested in seeing how this plays out. Bo-bombers, can you give us an update when the situation is resolved?</p>
<p>hrm, for those of you who think I made this up? Oh well, but trust me, I have better things to do than make up stories about college admission and if I was making it up - it'd be a whole lot better story, something like ...accepted early to 15ED schools, lol. Anyway - the story is still the same, he called up W&M and UVa and apparently was able to get out of it so he's going to UVa next year. We'll see if anything changes though ...</p>
<p>Wow, he was really lucky.</p>
<p>Your friend's ethics and rules-are-for-other-people-only attitude sucks. I don't buy his ignorance as an excuse. He read the situation the way he wanted to so that he could do what he wanted to.</p>
<p>Not sure about all that, but everyones entitled to their own opinions. I think it was a learning experience for him though once he saw this post.</p>
<p>well I'm glad he's going to UVA...</p>
<p>seems strange to me though, UVA gets so many top applicants, they could easily take another kid who didn't try to beat the system without taking any hit what-so-ever statistics wise. I really can't believe UVA would just let him in like that. Of course they took the kid from my school last year who said he was President of the nonexistant French club.</p>
<p>I heard of a person who was accepted ED to Harvard and Duke before. He had a very clever way of getting around it. What he did was send in the housing forms to both schools, enrolled at both, and simply didn't pay any tuition for Duke and attended none of the classes for Duke. He called Duke and said that he doesn't want to go to college anymore and needs to help work for his poor family. Therefore, he is a Duke dropout and a Harvard student. This was when Harvard had ED policies.</p>
<p>To my knowledge he did nothing sneaky like above, and knowing him, I don't think that he would. I suppose he was just lucky this time around ...and like the other post above that talked about one school keeping his info on file so if they decided to change schools later, they could - W&M did the same to this guy and told him to just give them a call...</p>
<p>He will likely have admission revoked to both schools. I am sure that they share their ED admission lists, too. In addition, the college may be so angry at your h.s. that in revenge, they reject other qualified students from your school. This happened at S's h.s. when a student got an ED admission, didn't bother to tell the GC, and then applied RD elsewhere and accepted another college's admission. The ED college adcom chewed out our h.s. GC, and the next year, rejected a highly qualified student who really wanted to go there.</p>
<p>Maybe I'm misreading this - but didn't bobomber above say that his friend HAS called both schools and they are both OK w/ this? He must have had a good enough explanation (although it is not clear to me what that could be ...)</p>
<p>I would be very, very surprised if the friend called both schools, told them he applied ED to both, and then one released him from his decision.
I can imagine that the OP's friend realizes the implications of having his situation posted on a public message board, and has now told the OP a lie in hopes that the OP will stop trying to help him in this public way.</p>
<p>I agree Northstarmom. The whole story strikes me as curious - especially given two schools with heavy emphasis on honor code.</p>
<p>I hope he didn't lie to me ....although his father did get upset becuase I posted the situation on the message boards or something.</p>