<p>Will your D be playing here sport at her first choice school?</p>
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<p>Is this the case with your child or have both schools given her a financial aid package and you are looking for some sort of athletic scholarship from school # 2? </p>
<p>I would think that at this stage of the game, that most of the athletic scholarships would already be accounted for? </p>
<p>How certain can you be that the coach is willing to hold a spot open for your daughter? </p>
<p>dte, if the coach at school B is sufficiently interested in your D–and able–to arrange for your D to be treated like a student on the wait list, then your problem is solved. </p>
<p>If not, I would say that given the mights and maybes associated with this situation, your D should realize that a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush and go with school A. It sounds as if she may not be able to be on the team at school B even if she does send a DVD.</p>
<p>I’m curious: did the coach approach your D with this plan, or did the coach offer this after urgent inquiries from your D? If the latter, then the coach may be throwing her a bone, and school A looks even better.</p>
<p>I think that Op’s D was accepted at school b but not as a recruited athlete. It is her second choice, which is why Op wants to double deposit. </p>
<p>She wants to know if the coach will give her a spot on the team. To me (and I could be wrong) it seems as D is going to her first choice without a spot on the team.</p>
<p>I agree with you in thinking he is merely tossing OP’s D a bone as even if his roster is not full, I am sure that he probably has some healthy players lined up.</p>
<p>I think in some circumstances double depositing is fine, not unethical. These schools are run like big businesses these days and in my experience break their own rules at times. I can’t recall ever signing anything that said we wouldn’t double deposit. Is it fair to keep someone on a waiting list until early August so the college can get exactly the class make up it wants? Of course not, but it happened to us. So where should we have gone to report this school? What difference would it have made? This famous LAC also lied about when the wait list considerations would start so some kids sent in additional information ahead of other kids.Schools do what is convenient and beneficial for them and parents should do the same.</p>
<p>I apologize if someone else explained this better, but here are my two cents -</p>
<p>Suppose your two favorite schools are Auburn (War Eagle!) and an Ivy, which is your number one reach school.</p>
<p>If you wanted to live on campus at Auburn but you were waiting for a notification of admission from the Ivy, “enroll and cancel” would be what you would do. Dorm space for freshmen fills up in February, and you can’t reserve a dorm room unless you have paid your university intent to enroll deposit. You pay your enrollment deposit, then you pay your housing deposit, then you pick your dorm. But - then you get your Ivy admission in March. If you want to go to the Ivy, you withdraw your intent to enroll deposit and your housing deposit for Auburn, and you put in an intent to enroll deposit on that Ivy. </p>
<p>The Auburn web site explains that they get to keep the intent to enroll deposit of $200 but they will refund your housing deposit if the housing request is canceled before May 1. They know that some students want to go to Auburn and live on campus at Auburn only if they don’t get into their number one reach school. </p>
<p>This isn’t double depositing, because at time, you only have your intent to enroll deposit in at one school. It’s “sequential depositing.” I don’t think this system is kind to the students who lose $200 because they got into their top reach school (a typical March notification school), but this is how they do it. I think Penn State works the same way; the UT Austin system is similar.</p>
<p>The current 2011 Common App language regarding double (or multiple) deposits reads:
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<p>It can be found directly above your child’s signature on the Common App. I don’t think you could submit electronically without checking the box next to the statement…</p>
<p>“I think that Op’s D was accepted at school b but not as a recruited athlete. It is her second choice, which is why Op wants to double deposit.
She wants to know if the coach will give her a spot on the team. To me (and I could be wrong) it seems as D is going to her first choice without a spot on the team.”</p>
<p>That is correct! My d’s first choice does not have a team for her sport. She was recruited at other schools prior to an injury that required major surgery. She has just been released to start practicing again. So while at school (B), she went and talked to the coach, who said she has not filled all spots, and because my d had surgery she would give her the chance to send a DVD. We are not asking for scholarships or financial aid :)) I think we figured it out though. We sent the coach a DVD of her last competition, letting her know that we will send an updated one by the end of July, and a recommendation from her coach. We explained that ‘d’ was torn between 2 colleges and that if we could have the assurance that if she re-obtained her previous skill level by the end of July she could be on the team, it would make her decision. We will see what happens.</p>
<p>The language on the common app seems pretty clear to me.
It also occurs to me that double-depositing ties up financial aid, hinders the dorm/roommate assignment process and , if done in sufficient numbers will just make the whole process more difficult as colleges have to add in more estimates to try to fill but not overfill their dorms.
Really - you all started this process , probably, a year or more before May 1 of senior year. Make up your minds. If you have an unusual situation, call the schools and talk to them.</p>
<p>NACAC is most definitely a non-profit organization made up of admissions folks from both the high school, non-profit, college/university, and consulting fields. This includes everyone from a rural Alaska public high school guidance counselor to the dean of admissions at some of the nation’s tippy-top schools. You do have to pay membership fees, but these fees sustain the organization.</p>
<p>The ethics of this sort of thing are quite clear cut.</p>
<p>It’s a good example of using the “What if everyone else behaved like this” test. Clearly that would be really really bad, so just because only a few people do it doesn’t somehow make it acceptable. It just means that small minority is selfish.</p>
<p>this thread was bumped up also
because there is another new post about this “hold down deposit” issue
regarding an oversea parent & student wanting to put down multiple deposits.
oversea HS most likely will not report multi-transcripts issue to colleges here.</p>
<p>Well, the coach emailed back, and she was very nice but no real assurance. So I think Consolation is right. A bird in hand is worth 2 in the bush.</p>
<p>it would be a shame to keep your daughter hanging for another 3 months with the possibility of giving up her first choice and have no real assurances. I think she should just move on and enjoy the prospect of attending her first choice school. Perhaps she can lead the charge in doing her sport either as an intramural or a club team on her new campus!</p>