<p>Someone has just told me they got ED into two schools (NYU and Cornell). Apparently, they got into both schools in December, so it's not like they applied to one school, backed out, and then applied to another. Since I didn't apply ED to any schools, I'm just curious if this is actually possible. Doesn't the ED form on the Common App say that you can only apply to one ED school at a time? Or if you don't, what happens?</p>
<p>I think I'm smelling a rat. If the person's lying, I'm really sad that they're doing so, since I don't even know them that well.</p>
<p>Cornell has binding Early Decision, and the acceptances came out in early December.</p>
<p>If this person was indeed accepted ED at both schools and did not turn one of them down for financial reasons, life is going to get interesting when two tuition bills arrive a few months from now.</p>
<p>^^So you wish. I am sure they made an excuse and turned one down. There’s no effective way to punish them really. They benefitted from having options others didn’t have. It’s not that different calling themselves some kind of minority when they have long forgotten that one of their ancesters was one. There will be people gaming the system. One would hope they don’t get far if their way of life is to game. But who knows.</p>
<p>There was a parent on this forum who reported that her kid got accepted to a SCEA school and an ED school. When queried more, it came out that the student actually hadn’t been “accepted” to the second school and had actually applied RD but anticipated an acceptance for other reasons.</p>
<p>Also some kids (athletes in particular) have gotten “likely letters”. Maybe this is what this student meant.</p>
<p>Did this “friend” tell you that he had accepted both offers of admission? Now THAT would be more exciting!!</p>
<p>Either I am getting senile, or there was another thread this week of a kid who was choosing between 2 ED acceptances, Cornell for ED1 and NYU ED2…</p>
<p>Or maybe it was different schools, but this was def addressed this week…elsewhere</p>
<p>How do you address this? Some people do these things. All we can hope for is they stumble on their cleverness someday.</p>
<p>OP stated they got into both in December. I don’t think LLs come out that early. I also believe recruited athletes are bound by ED agreement. It’s possible they lying about two acceptances but it is also very possible people didn’t honor the ED agreement and applied both. Can Common App sense them out? I don’t know. Could they create two CommApp versions to apply to two EDs? Would that work?</p>
<p>Maybe they didn’t get the financial package they were looking for with their ED from Cornell so they felt they could apply to NYU in their EDII program. But, that would be crazy since Cornell would likely have a better FA package than NYU who is not known for having great FA.</p>
<p>I really liked the policy at my daughter’s high school: you had to bring in the letter. They also let the girls wear hoodies from the schools where they had been accepted, which was a fun change of uniform. However, there was no bragging about getting into schools where it had not been verified.</p>
<p>I do remember an admission speaker telling the story at an orientation session of a student who had applied to both Lehigh and Bucknell ED and was accepted to both. Howeveer the student later recevieved a letter from Lehigh congratulating him on the Bucknell acceptance and a similar congrats letter from Bucknell re the Lehigh acceptance. Was left with nowhere to go. What goes around does eventually come around.</p>
<p>I imagine NYU and Columbia share ED lists as well</p>
<p>I’ve seen this happen. The parent told me, very proud–major scholarships at two major ED U’s. Son eventually matriculated at a third, much less well-known school. What does a person say? Now I smile and ask how he’s doing at X, wondering if she remembers our conversation. The whole college app process brings out so much exaggeration and outright lying…makes me wonder what other lies I’m falling for every day.</p>