<p>If by May 1, I haven't decided which school I definitely want to go to, can I mail in deposits to two different schools and then "unenroll" at one sometime in May? Or should I contact the schools and request a later reply/deposit date?</p>
<p>make up you're mind, give someone on the waitlist a shot</p>
<p>but there's a reason why i'm not sure where i want to go yet, and i won't find out til sometime in may.</p>
<p>A girl from our school sent out deposits to several schools - when they found out, they were all pretty angry, and also felt that the financial aid they had given her was probably unnecessary since she could obviously afford to pay the deposits. They yelled quite a bit at the counselor at my school.</p>
<p>Don't send it in; instead, if you have a legitimate reason, write both schools in advance explaining. With any luck, they'll be reasonable.</p>
<p>My brother sent in deposits to two school because his reach school deferred him, waitlisted him, then waitlisted him again, and sometime in JUNE he found out they had accepted him. So he had already given his match school a deposit but just called them up and explained that his dream school finally wanted him. From what I heard they didn't mind due to the unavoidability of the situation.</p>
<p>there is a difference between sending in a deposit to a school and then withdrawing because you were called off the waitlist at another school (the msot that happens is that you lose the deposit) and double depositing at 2 schools that you know that you have been admitted to.</p>
<p>the first scenario, the schools know happen each year and are expected. the second scenario can get your admission rescinded at both schools. This practice has also contributed to higher deposits being paid (I think Tufts depsoit is somewhere in the neighborhood of about $600) causing hardships on students who really want to attend but cannot afford the cost to hold the spot. Invertedcommas is right that your GC and your fellow students can ultimately get burned as your GC and your school can "lose face" with the college.</p>
<p>If it is between 2 schools, visit, talk to students, do more extensive research, sit down talk with your parents, get the $$ situation straightened out and make a decision so the spot can be freed up for some student on a waitlist.</p>
<p>I've read that students have lost acceptances because of double depositing to schools they were accepted to.</p>
<p>Case in point, apparently from the prep school Exeter's newsletter:</p>
<p>"Such a decision can have ramifications for your own offer of admission, too. Double depositing is severely frowned upon by all colleges and universities, and institutions can and do share information and lists. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that students and their families who choose to send in multiple deposits may in fact lose their spaces at all of their schools. Several highly-selective schools, such as Columbia and Stanford, have added a clause to their offers of admission stating that their decision is conditional upon the student's accepting admission to one college only."</p>
<p>Oh ok, thanks everyone. I'm going to try to call the schools to see if they'd be understanding to my situation, but I won't try to double deposit if they don't want me to.</p>
<p>I wouldnt do it. Ever. It is considered dishonest. Realize that if you do double enroll, you are taking up the spot of another student who is on the waiting list. I would just make up your mind. The schools are not going to care that you are having a hard time deciding. They will simply wait until May 1 and if you dont send in your deposit, you arent going there.</p>
<p>Not ever? My daughter accepted a place in good faith in a school but then an unexpected death in our immediate family has caused some changes that were not forseeable, so she has decided to actually attend another school. Has not yet written to the first school but will do so within the week to explain the situation. Should she have waited?</p>
<p>zooser...if she accepted to one place, withdraws this week, and accepts at another, that's fine given the circumstances.</p>
<p>Let's say I get into Duke and get waitlisted by Stanford.
I can hold my place at Duke while accepting the Stanford waitlist, thats OK?</p>
<p>But if I get into both, I pick only one?</p>
<p>It makes sense, a school can't expect someone to only take a waitlist and not hold a place somewhere, that's a big risk.</p>
<p>What about when one school doesn't send out any financial aid information until after all your other schools want a deposit or decline by? Is it ok to deposit to one school, and then if funding comes through for the other, make the switch?</p>
<p>As I remember it, the acceptance packages from many schools contained an agreement that you signed stating that you were only putting down a deposit at one school. I am pretty sure either daughter or I signed one of these for Columbia.</p>
<p>Bumblebee, can you share why you can't decide until after May 1?</p>
<p>I might face a similar situation. I am applying to a few US colleges, and to one college outside the US which only gives out admissions decisions in late May (well past the May 1 deadline). So I am worried about what might happen if I send the deposit to one of the US colleges and after receiving the decision from the non-US college, decide not to attend the US college after all. Can anyone help?</p>
<p>I'd feel that they you'd probably lose the deposit, but that they wouldn't fault you for it. I mean if the non-US college is your first choice and you don't get the decision until after May 1st, there's really nothing you can do about it is there. Better to call the college concerned once you get accepted.</p>
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Let's say I get into Duke and get waitlisted by Stanford.
I can hold my place at Duke while accepting the Stanford waitlist, thats OK?
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<p>Yes the situation you presented is totally acceptable and Duke will not penalize you shouls you be admitted to Stanford off of the waitlist (you would just inform them of that and have documentation as Duke would be well within their rights to ask for it).</p>
<p>I wasn't aware of how shunned upon double-depositing was. I knew a handful of people who did it last year with no consequences (and some of them did it just to buy more time to make a decision). </p>
<p>I was wondering if it would be ok for me to do it as a transfer applicant? I applied transfer to 5 schools and have so far received acceptances from two (rolling admissions). However, the three schools I'm waiting for are also the top three on my list and I don't anticipate hearing from them until early May at the soonest. One of the schools I've already been accepted to wants to hear back by May 1st, so there's definitely a conflict. Should I just deposit at the school and wait for the other decisions or should I try to negotiate for an extension on my deposit due date?</p>