<p>my girlfriend accidentally applied early decision to a college and just received notification that she was accepted. is there a way she can back out? she didnt realize she applied early decision :(</p>
<p>^Well, I’m sure she, like hundreds of thousands of college applicants every year, was sleepwalking when she checked off Early Decision and signed the agreement.</p>
<p>How does one accidentally apply early decision? I thought there was extra paperwork that had to be signed by the student and even the HS counselors.</p>
<p>Sometimes colleges will consider particularly promising candidates early based on when they send in thier application. Are you sure it wasn’t early action? My D had one of her apps moved into an early action pile last year, and was accepted early action to a school even though she’d applied early action elsewhere, but nobody is required to attend early action. She should make sure this is not what happened before she freaks out.</p>
<p>Is it possible for her to change it to regular decision? or is it too late? the college she got accepted to isnt selective, so i dunno if that changes the situation.</p>
<p>I don’t know. I find it unlikely, because it’s also basically impossible that she could “accidentally” apply ED. You and your counselor both have to sign an agreement, so unless she is in the habit of signing things she hasn’t even looked at…</p>
<p>Are you absolutely sure it wasn’t early action? As people have said before, early decision can be complicated (deliberately so, to prevent people from “accidentally” doing ED and trying to back out of the deal). If she really did early decision, she has to tell someone at the college that she made a mistake and wants to back out. There might be a fuss but in the end they can’t legally force her to enroll.</p>
<p>They can’t legally force her to enroll. But her counselor can legally refuse to send her transcripts to any other college, and other colleges can legally refuse to admit her if they find out she broke an ED agreement. So she definitely should not go in thinking “I don’t want to go here and they can’t make me”.</p>
<p>What college is it?</p>
<p>il pm u college name if you like
i think she overlooked signing the agreement on common app? im not sure :/</p>
<p>Her parents would have to sign too. No one accidently sign an ED agreement. Unless it’s for financial reason, there isn’t a graceful way out. Her GC may not even support other applicaitons. If she doesn’t want to jeopardize her ED, she will also need to withdraw all other applications.</p>
<p>ColumbiaStud:
When I read your opening post (saying your girlfriend accidentally applied ED and didn’t realize it), my immediate reaction was:</p>
<p>1: There is some other “real reason” she wants to back out of her commitment,
which you’re not telling us.</p>
<p>2: The two of you came up with the excuse that she didn’t realize it.</p>
<p>If I were an adcom at a college, I wouldn’t fall for that excuse at all.<br>
It’s true they can’t hold a gun to her head and make her go, but they can blackball her name at lots of other colleges. </p>
<p>When our daughter applied ED, I vaguely recall we were responsible for her first year’s tuition if she decided to change her mind.</p>
<p>she honestly overlooked it.
and i wouldn’t see why I would try to lie about this in my question and come up with an excuse loll
it has a different early decision policy? early decision I and II
i think she chose early decision II, thinking it was regular.
il ask her again tomorrow, but i think she told GC to put regular, but on her common app she clicked ED II :/</p>
<p>ColumbiaStud; </p>
<p>I get your problem, but unless this is some weird college where a kid can accidentally sign a binding contract with your parents support (which, by the way, sounds all kinds of illegal), no college is going to believe that. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s implausible. If your girlfriend is dead set against not attending, they can’t make her go but they can give her a huge headache about it.</p>
<p>Her best bet, really, is to call the college. There is nothing we can do about it. Call the college and tell them, flat out, that she’s not going. It’ll be a problem for her most likely, but if she doesn’t want to go then she shouldn’t go.</p>
<p>thanks
yea she did everything by herself w/o parents really looking over. i mean she isnt dead set on not attending because she sincerly thought she applied regularly 
and i understand, from the admissions point of view, it’s hard to believe.</p>
<p>What everyone is saying is that it’s impossible to “accidentally” apply early. It’s REALLY hard to screw up regular vs early decision.</p>
<p>but its early decision II, so the deadline was similar to regular schools :/</p>
<p>That doesn’t really matter. At most of the schools I’ve ever heard of, the Early Decision process is more than a bit more involved than just clicking a box. For the Common Application, for example, you not only need to fill out an entirely separate form, you need the signatures of your parent/guardian and the guidance counselor at your high school. Most schools have similar requirements because it’s a contract. It’s not just accidentally clicking ED II instead of RD; it’s an involved process and it’s really, really hard to believe that anyone is that careless and stupid. </p>
<p>I don’t want to call your girlfriend a liar, but it’s exceedingly unlikely that she, her parents, and her guidance counselor could have filled out a contract without looking at it once.</p>
<p>right i get you
parents aren’t really involved in her education, so they prob just signed off
as for guidance counselors il ask her abt this tm
okk i think this thread is exhausted and i don’t really want to talk too much about this publicly any more
if you have any suggestions, can you just pm them?</p>
<p>Sorry, but doing ED on “accident” is beyond ridiculous.
In order to enter into ED, you need to fill out and submit this:
<a href=“http://img.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/v372/potatodragon/edagreement.png[/url]”>http://img.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/v372/potatodragon/edagreement.png</a></p>
![http://img.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/v372/potatodragon/edagreement.png[/url]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/potatodragon/edagreement.png%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
<p>Which, honestly, is basically impossible to have submitted without knowing what she was agreeing to. Even if she didn’t, I highly doubt neither her GC or parents discussed it with her before signing and sending it in.</p>