<p>I'm applying transfer to a lot of places. Long story short, this is par for the course at my school... It's a 4-year school, but most people transfer after 2 years, and so this is more like my senior year except that I'm a college sophomore. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>Anyway, four of the colleges answer on April 1st. One of those the answer deadline is June 1. The others, the reply date is May 1. My third choice is among these. </p>
<p>Four of the colleges answer May 15!!! My first choice is among these. Their reply date is June 1st. </p>
<p>Two of the colleges reply "Late May or Early June." My second choice is among these. Their reply date is July 1st. </p>
<p>See the problem?!?!</p>
<p>Has anyone else run into this??? What have they done about it?</p>
<p>I know that at schools like Brown, if you get in somewhere else and have to give that other school an answer before Brown tells you their decision, that if you fax Brown your acceptance letter at the other school, that Brown will make a admissions decision early for you so that you can make the choice between the schools. I think that this is the case at other schools too.</p>
<p>It is a bit of a problem for me as well..I've been accepted to a school already, but won't hear from my number one till the middle of april at the earliest. the problem is housing is SO limited where I have already been accepted and I'm sort of concerned that I will end up having no where to live if I don't get into my number one...:(</p>
<p>I don't have this problem (only applying to one school), but it makes sense to me to handle things that way if you have different deadlines. It will be especially useful if you're appealing to your first or second (or third) choice school, saying (in nicer words), "Look, these people have accepted me, but I'd prefer you. They require a response at [such and such time] and I would like to know what I should do," which would essentially put the ball in their court. Please be nicer about it than I was, though, or it'll likely go to the reject pile. ;)</p>
<p>From what I've heard around CC and elsewhere, the schools are usually pretty understanding about it. I strongly encourage you NOT to pursue those schools that you are not interested in attending if you already have an admit from a school you'd prefer.</p>
<p>What you might have to do is just reply for the school that you want to go to most out of the ones you've been accepted to, and then if you get accepted to a more preferable one later then you can tell the school that and then choose the other one, you'll just lose the 200 dollar deposit you make to the first school. This is similar to the situation where if a freshmen applicant sends in a deposit to a school for the may 1 deadline but then gets taken off the wait-list at another school over the summer and then wants to go there so they just have to lose the initial matriculation deposit.</p>
<p>" What you might have to do is just reply for the school that you want to go to most out of the ones you've been accepted to, and then if you get accepted to a more preferable one later then you can tell the school that and then choose the other one, you'll just lose the 200 dollar deposit you make to the first school. This is similar to the situation where if a freshmen applicant sends in a deposit to a school for the may 1 deadline but then gets taken off the wait-list at another school over the summer and then wants to go there so they just have to lose the initial matriculation deposit."</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that this is unacceptable. At least one of the colleges SPECIFICALLY stated that they reserved the right to automatically reject you if they discovered that you sent a deposit to any other school.</p>
<p>I meant that when you send in a deposit to the second school, you first let the first school know that you're losing your deposit and wont be attending that school. Obviously dont leave the first school in the dark and send a second deposit without withdrawing the first. I dont know, maybe that too isnt allowed by the schools you're applying to. I'm guessing you probably meant the second school that notifies in june or july wouldn't want you sending in a may 1 deposit elsewhere. In that case, just call the admissions office, they'll tell you what to do and it seems like a legit question. If you do, post the response you get, alot of us are in the same situaiton.</p>