<p>Is it ok to accept two college offers? One is in USA and the other in Canada. Will there be any problems with that?
Will they ever find out? and Can I reject one later on? say July? August?
Thanks
Awaiting response!</p>
<p>No, it is unethical to say that you will attend two colleges, when you can only attend one. There is nothing you will know in July that you do not know now.</p>
<p>Hold your breath and make a choice.</p>
<p>It's bigamy. ;)</p>
<p>it is unethical, but you COULD just lie to one of the colleges and say you were taken off the waitlist at the other school. you really shouldnt do it unless you have a good reason (such as awaiting a scholarship/financial aid appeal)... but if that were the case you should notify the college of your situation</p>
<p>So it is unethical unless you LIE?</p>
<p>Am I missing something here? Or do I just have an incorrect view of what 'ethical' means?</p>
<p>Sounds like you'll have a pretty long commute between classes.</p>
<p>"So it is unethical unless you LIE?"</p>
<p>Accepting two offers is lying because you are stating that you agree to be in two places at the same time in September.</p>
<p>Dont do it. Why would you, anyways?</p>
<p>How is it unethical? Lots of people send in deposits to one college hoping they will get off the waitlist at another. Or they send in deposits then decide not to go to college at all. I guess an applicant might be waiting for some condition to occur...like financial circumstances changing or a medical condition improving.</p>
<p>haha i second what muffy said. It's not really unethical at all.</p>
<p>Well, if you put in for the deposit at both, you won't get one of them back.</p>
<p>It's your money. Wouldn't deciding be easier..now?</p>
<p>Think of the person on the waiting list who would probably have one of those spots at those colleges. Wouldn't it be kind to just decline on of them so that someone else has the opportunity to go whenever you're going?</p>
<p>I guess when the first semester bill comes for both you could even pay them both. And enroll in classes at both. At some colleges you could probably just fly under the radar for four years; as long as you kept paying your bill on time, you might even graduate.</p>
<p>Putting a deposit down on one and accepting a place on a waitlist at another is different than being accepted at and committing to attend two different schools.</p>
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How is it unethical? Lots of people send in deposits to one college hoping they will get off the waitlist at another. Or they send in deposits then decide not to go to college at all.
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The difference is that when one accepts a school and stays on the waitlist, one is not committing oneself to go to two schools at once. It's as if one accepted two jobs at once; you resign from one to take the other.</p>
<p>Do what is best for you.
Like colleges are so ethical. I know for a fact that a certain college "COA" Cost of attendance will be going up from 37K to 39+K but wait till the middle of May to announce it so your stuck ( 2 weeks after the May 1st. deadline ) As the say Nothing personal " its just business" Good Luck.</p>
<p>If the college is competitive they aren't really being hurt, they just keep your deposit and take someone else. I guess anyone doing this has a good reason for it and not just taking sadistic pleasure in having enough money to tie up spots at numerous colleges.</p>
<p>I am waitlisted at the two schools I really want to go to (Brown and Middlebury) and have been accepted to Hamilton and Bowdoin. I would like to make a final decision after hearing from my waitlist schools. The waitlist schools encourage you to accept from another school; is it so wrong to pay the deposit on two?</p>
<p>This thread made me think about how college admissions would change if more people put down two (or more!) deposits. </p>
<p>Right now, colleges have yield models that account for acceptances by May 1, leavened with a little “summer melt” due to students accepting offers off a waitlist, getting cold feet about college in general, or otherwise deciding not to attend. Multiple deposits would change that model. Colleges would adapt in several different ways. Some might form groups that ask incoming students to sign a pledge that they have committed to one and only one school. Then, like in ED, they would trade lists of students who’d submitted deposits. If a student was found to submit two deposits, they’d be bounced out of both schools.</p>
<p>Or, schools might bump up their deposit. That would be a real budget-buster for some families who are putting down only one deposit in good faith. It also means that they’d lose even more money if they are hoping to be accepted off a wait list. </p>
<p>Schools might fine-tune their yield models by sending out more acceptances, but since they’d be getting lots of deposits from all the students double-depositing, they’d find themselves dealing with possible overbooking. It’s like an airline, or a hotel. If their models are off and they end up with lots of kids showing up in August or September, they can’t exactly bump them and tell them to take a later flight, throwing in a voucher for some free dorm food. More likely, the waitlists will grow deeper, which means more people will be accepted off waitlists. That sounds like good news, except that it also means you’ve paid your deposit at school number 1. The new model would, in essence, add an additional tax equal to one deposit, since more people would be getting into college off a waitlist. That doesn’t even include the psychological cost of waiting on tenterhooks for the waitlist acceptance to come through. </p>
<p>Figure that students would apply to even MORE schools, as well. That means everyone spends more on applications. </p>
<p>For the students who want to know if it’s ethically OK to put down two deposits, it’s worth thinking about the end results of your actions. If everybody starts doing this, it’s going to cost other people real money and angst. That means that no, it’s not ethical. Make your decision by May 1, like everyone else. If there is some serious issue and you really do need more time, call the admissions offices and ask them for some leeway.</p>
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<p>Oh, yeah, definitely not. The fact that colleges policies are often unethical doesn’t really make the applicant’s actions more ethical – that’s not how life really works. Unfortunately, if you have the right combination of affluence and narcissism, anything is possible! I mean, it’s not like the current applicants in this case will actually have to deal with the consequences of this; they’re already in one of the two colleges, and they’re not going to be applying to college again, are they?</p>
<p>It’s unethical to double-deposit at two schools to which you have been accepted, and it is NOT analogous to the waitlist situation. Most people do not get in off the waitlist; it is understood and made clear by colleges and counselors that if you are waitlisted you cannot depend upon admission and should therefore accept a spot at another school. If you do get in off a waitlist and accept the late offer of admission then you are supposed to let the school you initially responded yes to know promptly about the change.</p>
<p>It is disappointing to read responses that try to get around this basic do-the-right-thing issue regarding double deposits. The question comes up every year, the answer is the same every year, and there always seem to be people who think when they are untruthful or dishonest or stretch the rules a bit for their convenience that it is’t the same or as bad as when other people do it.</p>