Get Out of Early Decision

<p>i was just curious. is there any legal way to get out of a binding early decision acceptance by a college?
I add up all the acceptances from early decision and regular from many universities and the matriculants do not add up from acceptances in both.</p>

<p>If their financial aid package doesn't meet your requirements. I'm sure it's very difficult to get out of it, though.</p>

<p>if and ONLY IF your family cannot afford to pay for education despite the financial aid package offered.</p>

<p>did you remember to account for waitlist acceptees? They are not included in RD admissions i believe.</p>

<p>You screw yourself because if you back of of ED at an Ivy, no other ivy will take you(because they do share information and state in their joint statement that they will not accept an ED student accepted at another school". Most schools will let you out of your ED agreement to attend your local public university-so it looks like rugters for you. Your GC's credibility and ethics will be on the line because the school will beleive that s/he did not effectively explain the ed process to you, and you will screw your fellow students because of the backlash that can come back against your school.</p>

<p>word to the wise, if money is an issue, do not apply ED.</p>

<p>However harsh the above poster sounds, I totally agree and the situations he/she has described HAVE in fact happened. For example, a school several miles away from us is not able to send ANY students to Georgetown University because a student several years ago from that high school declined an ED acceptance and was taken off the contract. However, the high school was put on a 'black list' by Georgetown in which no students from the school would be accepted to the university. This is true because a current friend of mine that goes to this high school (which is a school that sends dozens of students to ivy league schools and is a very rich neighborhood) was told the information I have told you in a speech by his guidance coordinator in their high school for all the seniors applying to college. Soo, just to reiterate, do not apply ED if money is an issue.</p>

<p>do you think it's fair for colleges to blacklist schools for severeal years? it sounds unfair to me.</p>

<p>xindianx - your story cannot be wholly true, since Georgetown does not offer binding ED.</p>

<p>however, your overall point is basically correct.</p>

<p>oh wow you are right, hm maybe it was another school, I'll check up with my friend, but the context of the story is true and proves my point.</p>

<p>wow it seems pretty serious to reject an early decision acceptance.
also, i applied for EA and ED to two different schools and only recently i heard that it is looked down upon =( but none of the two schools are ivy...</p>

<p>of course it's serious. that's why many schools make you sign a pledge form and asks that your counselor and/or parents sign it too to understand the implication of an ED application.</p>

<p>Some schools have SCEA (single choice early action) which means if you apply SCEA you cannot apply to any other ealy programs Schools that participate in SCEA are Harvard, yale, Stanford, and Georgetown who state</p>

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Early Action program may not apply at the same time to binding Early Decision programs since they then would not be free to choose Georgetown if admitted. Students are welcome to apply to other Early Action programs or other Regular Decision programs while at the same time applying to Georgetown's Early Action program.

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<p>so if you have applied to one of these schools, yes doing both will be looked down upon.</p>

<p>georgetown is not SCEA because SCEA means you can't apply to any other school under ANY form of Early acceptance, i.e. not EA either.</p>

<p>while georgetown is not SCEA, they do not allow you to apply ED to another school at the same time you apply EA there (you can apply to other EA programs</p>

<p>Frequently Asked Questions</p>

<p>If I apply to Georgetown under Early Action can I still apply to other schools under Early programs?</p>

<p>Students applying to Georgetown under our Early Action program may not concurrently apply to a binding Early Decision program. Georgetown does give students the option to apply both under our Early Action program and under other schools’ Early Action programs. Please be sure to research the guidelines of all schools to which you are applying; not all Early Action programs will allow multiple Early Action applications. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/admissions/EarlyActionFAQ3.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/admissions/EarlyActionFAQ3.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I believe there is another way to get out of an ED contract, not that you should, though. Apparently if you decline the ED offer in favor of going to an international school, the contract does not hold.</p>

<p>but i still think they will hold it against you</p>

<p>my principal used to work in a big "ivy-feeder" school in a wealthy part of connecticut. He talked about how for his first 8 years there, they were sending kids to all top tier schools, but that for some reason, even the most qualified applicants couldn't get into Brown. They had sent something like 200 qualified applications into Brown over the course of 8 years, and not even one waitlist.</p>

<p>finally he asked the admissions rep why this way, and the rep told him that the year before he became principal (sorry the "he" is an unqualified pronoun, but you get the idea) a student had declined a binding early decision acceptance. </p>

<p>Goes to show that even a decade down the road, and with new administration, adcoms aren't going to forget that sort of violation.</p>

<p>You have to remember that a very important part of your GC's job is to help build relationships with adcoms so that they can speak on your behalf if needed and be heard. </p>

<p>At the end of the day it is a job and no one really wants to burn an important connection especially when you know that you will have to come back to them.</p>

<p>the reason that an adcom will burn a school is because they feel that they have acted in good faith in admitting a students and the student/school thought nothing of breeching the relationship</p>