<p>Hypothetically, if you were to apply for more than one BINDING early-decision school, what would happen? Imagine if you applied ED for two very competitive reaches, first of all, the chances of getting in are quite slim, so the chances of getting accepted to both is even slimmer. And if, per say, you were actually accepted to both schools, the only condition of backing out is not enough financial aid. So couldn't you simply make up an excuse to back out? It's not like they can FORCE you to go to their school. Thoughts? Corrections? Besides the obvious: "It is not right, it is not moral."</p>
<p>If the other school finds out, they can and probably will revoke your admission.</p>
<p>You may be over thinking this possibility.</p>
<p>In practice your guidance counselor and hence your high school is aware of your ED (or Early Action) application status. They provide transcripts and recommendations. They are obliged to prevent the situation that you’ve hypothesized. They’ll protect you from making the foolish double application that you’re thinking about.</p>
<p>This won’t end well.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that you would be blacklisted.</p>
<p>If the HS were complicit with this, THEY and subsequent applicant classes would be blacklisted. You’d have to have a pretty stupid GC to go along with this hare-brained scheme.</p>
<p>If a student were to violate the ED contract in order to apply ED to a second school, then they probably aren’t mature enough to go to college. Anyway, I don’t think it would be that easy to back out of an ED contract once accepted. It can be done, but you would need a very convincing argument.</p>
<p>Just wondering guys! Because the ED explanations are quite vague in the research that I’ve done. Obviously I wouldn’t do this, but I was just curious as to see how they closed the loopholes. But how is the hard to back out of an ED contract? I mean… if you don’t pay them the money, they won’t let you in their school…</p>
<p>There is no way to force you to attend, and no school would try. You could end up taking a gap year after losing your deposit.</p>
<p>I think I read that if they found out, they rescind acceptance and make sure other colleges know what you’ve done.</p>