<p>Most schools will give you a tentative award pending verification. That said, I can see how a large state school does not have the time to do even that.</p>
<p>If you are saying accepting to both large state schools, then that’s probably ok. Large state schools have huge melts, and you would be just one more student withdrawing before matriculation. If they don’t have time to process tentative Financial Aid, then they don’t have time to investigate kids who don’t matriculate. I wouldn’t risk it if the schools were Harvard and Yale.</p>