<p>I'm waiting for my waitlist schools, which is probably not going to contact me until May 15th. But then CMU's enrollment/deposit fee is due on May 1st right? Does anybody know whether there's any punishment or consequence if you pay the $600 deposit and enroll, but later decide to go somewhere else?</p>
<p>The only consequence is you will lose the deposit. Many schools have this as wait listed students are accepted elsewhere.</p>
<p>Like bosssr said, you just lose your deposit. I’m enrolling at CMU, but am one several waitlists as well, and it’s rather annyoing that CMU’s deposit fee is several hundered dollars more than most schools. They probably make it that high to discourage people from accepting spots on other waitlists. >:<</p>
<p>Thank you guys very much! I just felt really really nervous about this since in their enrollment form was this: </p>
<p>Statement of Intent
I will enroll at Carnegie Mellon University for Fall, 2009. I understand that I must notify all of the other colleges and universities which I have been admitted to of my decision to enroll.</p>
<p>You must agree to this statement to accept enrollment: I will not post an enrollment deposit at any other institution other than Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>I didn’t exactly post an enrollment deposit at any other institution other than Carnegie Mellon, but what if I get into my other waitlisted schools?</p>
<p>I think that statement means you’ll notify carnegie mellon that you will attend another university because you got off the wait list, and then you put your deposit down for your wait listed school that you got into. You can’t be enrolled in both carnegie mellon and your wait list school at the same time, without cmu knowing first that you enrolled elsewhere from your wait list.</p>
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<p>You should contact CMU and ask them the question above directly.</p>
<p>It’s not okay to double deposit at two schools, but it’s fine to decline to go if you get off a waitlist. A deposit however is a deposit, they are not generally returned.</p>
<p>This is how it’s done everywhere. You have to send your enrollment deposit by May 1. Yet your waitlist schools can’t possibly notify you till sometime after May 1, when they tally their own deposits and start going to their own waitlists, if at all.</p>
<p>The ‘punishment’ or ‘consequence’ I guess is you lose the 600 bucks…that’s all (though it’s a lot of money).</p>
<p>600$ is a lot . geez</p>
<p>what happens if you do enroll at 2 colleges? Will you end up getting kicked out of both?</p>
<p>^Why would you want to enroll at two colleges? I doubt they would find out, but what’s the point of paying two enrollement fees when you’re going to have to choose one of the two eventually?</p>