<p>Just got my hair done, and the hairdresser told me her kid has deposits in at three schools, and is hoping to make a decision in the next few weeks. And the school counselor (private school) endorsed that idea, since she's having a hard time making up her mind. (These are all public schools in different states, and none are particularly selective, but still....)</p>
<p>I didn’t think that was allowed.</p>
<p>^^Exactly. But who’s gonna stop them?</p>
<p>It’s unethical and the GC at that school should be fired, imo.</p>
<p>It happens all the time. Hope they at least decide soon. I know a young lady who made her decision in August…chose two dorms, had two roommates, went to two orientations, then chose.</p>
<p>I did that too. i got accepted in two school through EOP and 1 school through normal admissions. I don’t really know what EOP students are treated like so i just wanted to buy more time to research the EOP</p>
<p>Does any one know how eop students are treated. Are there any stereotypes and stuff like that ??</p>
<p>Some colleges encourage it. If you don’t give a room deposit right away, your kid will get a leftover room, triple, quad or temporarary quarters, maybe no room at all even as a freshman at some schools. Some schools do not care. Is it the common app that prohibits double depositing? Some colleges specify that you are only to commit to one college and if they find out you have done others, they will drop you. They also make you sign a commitment statement specifiying you are only commiting to one school. A lot of colleges, however do not care. They just want to know if your kid is coming or not as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Many high schools will only send that final transcript to one school, also. If more kids start this sort of thing, colleges are going to have to take some measures. I guess the deposits are not high enough these days.</p>
<p>Isn’t a room deposit separate than the deposit one must send with acceptance?</p>
<p>This is getting to be very common since there isn’t anything to really catch this. ED kids are doing this as well…depositing, not withdrawing other apps (especially to state schools that really aren’t paying any attention to these things), and then deciding later.</p>
<p>DS has 4 friends with multiple deposits. One is because the FA package is not complete, and another can’t decide between religious schools and public. The other two jsut really don’t know where to go. To my knowledge the GC doesn’t know but I can’t imagine it would fly.</p>
<p>I can’t understand why someone would do this…what is going to be different in a few weeks to make the decision clearer? For a hairdresser, I would think losing two deposits would be significant.</p>
<p>OP - you must be paying your hairdresser very well if he/she could afford to forego multiple deposits.</p>
<p>^^you wouldn’t believe where hairdressers live around these parts…biggest houses in the neighborhood…</p>
<p>my hairdresser lives better than I do…</p>
<p>GCs would never know about multiple deposits (how would they???). They have to ask the students if/where they were accepted.</p>
<p>Schools don’t encourage but accept that students will drop multiple deposits (or just not show up). Summer melt.</p>
<p>Hmmmnn… Maybe we should be sending our kids to hairdressing school ;)</p>
<p>We should stop tipping. We are enabling our hairdressers in making multiple deposits.</p>
<p>If the student is waitlisted at a need-blind school and the familiy has a low EFC, then it might make sense. </p>
<p>I am not saying that it is ethical.</p>
<p>You don’t deposit at a school where you’ve been waitlisted. Obviously, some kids will accept a school and deposit there with the hope that they will be accepted to a school which has WL them. </p>
<p>But, in this scenario, we’re talking about kids who just cannot decide, and apparently have money to burn… This is what is what is being deemed unethical.</p>