<p>Well, they will need to make up their minds before the final transcript is sent. Most schools will ONLY send one…to THE school where the student is matriculating.</p>
<p>sorry fo3b, I was thinking about someone who deposits at 1 & 2, and hopes 3 will come through so there is no decision between 1 and 2</p>
<p>but as most know, waitlists are just a ‘no’</p>
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<p>YOU can stop tipping. Me, I’m going to keep my great hair! 
Selfish, I know, but what can you do?</p>
<p>Auburn runs out of freshman housing in February and goes to a wait list. In order to reserve housing, you pay an attendance deposit and then a housing deposit. </p>
<p>Auburn does not seem to discourage students from making a deposit for the sake of holding a dorm room for themselves while they are waiting to hear from other schools and deciding what to do; they encourage you to deposit to the school and deposit for housing early and they are generous about their willingness to return the housing deposit if you decide not to attend.</p>
<p>I think that if she’s holding rooms at Auburn and another school like Auburn, she’ll later get emails saying something like “Your day to pick your dorm room is June 5. If you notify us by June 4 that you will not be coming, we will refund your housing deposit” - and that this seems to be okay. (Surely she will choose one of the schools soon to maximize her chance to get a refund.)</p>
<p>There are circumstance where mulitple deposits are needed. Sometimes these schools cannot get their aid packages together or a kid is accepted to a school but not a program and those things are hanging in mid air. The admissions office refused to respond to a request to extend the deadline especially if it is the back up school and not the one holding up things. One of my nephews was in the situation where he was waitlisted for a ROTC spot. So he accepted the university’s offer and waited for a spot to open for ROTC, but also accepted a spot where he knew he would have an ROTC scholarship. There are exceptions that often occur because in many cases financial aid and admissions are not operating in synch.</p>
<p>So someone pointed out the three deposits on a hairdresser’s salary; but we all missed the fact the the kid goes to…private school!!</p>
<p>Some splainin’ to do, Lucy!!</p>
<p>Like mine, her hairdresser may have a spouse with significant income …not that we stereotype here on CC and assume a hairdresser has low income family income…nope, none of that here.</p>
<p>^^yea, I thought of that too…just playing around</p>
<p>Seriously. I wish I could cut and style hair though :-)</p>
<p>Glad the hairdresser can afford to plunk down all that dough and contribute to yield and wait list problems. $500 at Boston College just did me in and there was no way I wanted my son to prolong this agony. Fortunately, neither did he. I told him that an admissions officer at another university back east also encouraged this sort of behavior, and he found it disgusting. He said he was so lucky to have had great choices and excellent FA packages and felt it was time to pass those opportunities on to other students. Pretty impressive when the children are more ethical than the grown ups.</p>
<p>We made housing deposits, before all acceptances were in, but that didn’t require committing to attend.</p>
<p>In the end, though, does it really matter? At some point the final decision will be made and the rejected schools will go to their waitlists while keeping the deposits for their troubles. In the scheme of things, this is not something I would lose sleep over.</p>
<p>On the Common App, isn’t the student required to affirm that they will only deposit with one school?</p>
<p>My daughter has a friend with deposits at three schools, and another with deposits at two… and neither seem to be in any hurry to make a decision. I don’t think they (or their parents) have any idea that you aren’t supposed to do that. Maybe this is a lot more common than you’d think?</p>
<p>Schools don’t care about multiple deposits-it’s a money maker for them. If colleges were concerned, they would increase the deposit to $1000 or more and parents would force their offpring to decide.</p>
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<p>arabrab – did you say: “that’s not right” or “I don’t think you’re supposed to do that”? Believe me – if I was in the chair and my hairdresser told me, and she was holding very sharp scissors near my head, I wouldn’t have said anything either. :)</p>
<p>re: hairdresser lifestyle – mine lives pretty well too – makes good tips, and husband is in construction – lots of cash floating around. You have to wonder if they report all that income.</p>
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Yes, just like they affirm that everything submitted in the Common App is their own work.</p>
<p>I really don’t know why it’s significant that it’s a hairdressers kid unless we’re stratifying professions in a caste system.</p>
<p>I am a college professor and have wonderful discussions with people from all “walks of life” as the saying goes. I wouldn’t never make any assumptions about anyone based on their profession. And why shouldn’t a hairdresser be a good earner?</p>
<p>As for private school, my kids attended a private school because I had a long commute and could never be sure I would be in the area in time for the end of the school day with the vagaries of traffic and and weather. When my H become locally based they went to public school.</p>
<p>It was an academically focussed private school and many of the kids came from the weaker school districts in the area. Their parents wanted just as much for them but couldn’t afford the sticker price to move into one of the wealthier school districts. In fact, because of that, the private school had more diversity than the public school did, because we did live in one of the wealthier school districts. I was sorry we had to leave that diversity behind, but we had a good school and when our circumstances changed I couldn’t justify the price of the private school.</p>
<p>I don’t know why we should be snobbish about her profession.</p>
<p>As for the matter at hand, I wouldn’t take the risk of colleges discovering I had done this, but I don’t really see any moral issues involved. These will always be a late wait list student eager for the seat.</p>
<p>If the practice became widespread, it would make a nightmare for college admissions so we must hope that most people will follow the directives and deposit to just one school.</p>
<p>Honestly with everything computer based as it is…I HOPE that this sort of thing WILL be tracked at some point. </p>
<p>Like I said earlier…when it is time for the GC to send the final transcript…MOST schools will only send ONE…and that is to the school the student has actually chosen. They will not send more than one final transcript out. So this student (and her parents) should really make a decision…fast.</p>
<p>Also, the likelihood of getting a deposit back from the other two schools is very very small. I guess that doesn’t matter to them.</p>
<p>At least with the kids that I know that have double posted, none of them completed the common app-each had to do the school apps. I also find it funny that one kid has deposited at a main campus and at a satellite, so he might try to get the deposit back as if it was deposited to the wrong school by mistake. </p>
<p>For the one with serious financial concerns, I know it will be resolved before transcripts are completed. Taxes were not completed until April and school needed final numbers to guarnantee this aid.</p>