<p>^^
What says in the title, if I get admitted through ED, do I have to withdraw other applications instantly?</p>
<p>Or.. can I just wait until other institutions release decisions and reject their offers (just want to know what the results would be like..)</p>
<p>I think you would have to withdraw them immediately. </p>
<p>But if you've already sent them, like the UC apps due 11/30 for example, then you'll obviously have to reject their offers.</p>
<p>I already sent some of my applications.. do I have to inform those universities about my ED situation and withdraw my applications? or.. can I just wait until they release the decisions?</p>
<p>I think you have to withdraw them.......</p>
<p>how do they know whether we withdrew them?</p>
<p>You do not have to withdraw them for most schools. You just cannot accept any offers. You might want to put a few extra applications in just in case the college rejects the offer, unlikely but better to be safe.</p>
<p>OP, did you read the terms of your ED agreement that you had to sign when you applied? That should define what you need to do if you are accepted ED. I think there may be an exception if you are applying to your in-state school. Read the fine print.</p>
<p>Your GC had to sign off that you would comply with the requirements of ED. Failing to comply may foul things up for you as well as for future applicants to that school.</p>
<p>You do have to withdraw them. Otherwise, you're wasting the time of the already over-burdened admissions people at the other schools, breaking your ED agreement (which does require that you withdraw your applications), and taking a spot from a student who might actually go to the other schools.</p>
<p>You also promised to do so. From the Common App ED agreement:
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The obligation explicit in the Early Decision Plan, as described here and as defined by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, is a commitment on the part of the candidate to withdraw any other applications and to initiate no new applications if accepted under an institution’s Early Decision Plan. (This commitment is binding only if sufficient financial aid is offered.)
�� Yes, I wish to be considered as an Early Decision candidate. If I am accepted under the Early Decision Plan, I will matriculate in the fall. **In addition, I understand that, if accepted under Early Decision, I must withdraw all my applications (if any) to other institutions and make no new ones. **I further acknowledge that it is a violation of the agreement for an applicant to be an Early Decision candidate at two or more institutions at the same time. By checking this item and signing our names below, we acknowledge the terms of the Early Decision commitment.
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As soon as you determine that the FA offer is adequate, you must withdraw your other applications.</p>
<p>Being "curious" about where else you'll get in is not sufficient reason to violate your agreement.</p>
<p>What CountingDown and Chedva said. Read what you signed. Withdraw your other applications if admitted to an ED college.</p>
<p>Of course you have to withdraw your other applications immediately -- just as you promised to do in your ED application.</p>
<p>And why should other colleges waste their time and even reject students who may wish to attend their colleges just because you want to get more acceptances that you're honor bound to turn down?</p>
<p>Well here's my question though, theoretically, what if you wait for another college to send you a decision letter so you get their financial aid offer and they offer a better financial aid package. Wouldn't "This commitment is binding only if sufficient financial aid is offered," come into play because it seems sufficient financial aid wasn't offered since for example your #2 college sent a better aid offer? I'm just being hypothetical.</p>
<p>sufficient financial aid is a number that varies with your income/home situation. There's probably a link to a financial aid calculator on college board. if that specific quota isn't met then the agreement is null. That probably won't happen though. You can't beat the system.</p>
<p>Based purely on the text of the agreement posted in msg#8 by Chedva, I see that the applicant is required to withdraw the other applications but it does not specify how promptly it needs to be withdrawn. </p>
<p>ten96lt also makes an interesting point about the financial aid. </p>
<p>Another hypothetical scenario- what if the applicant has received some really low senior year grades after ED application was sent in and is concerned that the ED college will use the low grades as a reason to deny eventual enrollment. </p>
<p>OTOH, I suspect the OP is just driven by idle curiosity and a wish to stoke his/her ego by getting more acceptances. So my recommendation would also be to immediately withdraw the remaining applications and just enjoy the rest of senior year.</p>
<p>Not honoring the ED agreement, as Northstarmom points out, risks getting a lot more rejections (including from the original ED college).</p>
<p>"Sufficient financial aid" is not the same as the most financial aid. Assuming that your ED school offers you a reasonable and appropriate financial aid package, you have signed a contract binding yourself. You have reaped the advantage of this promise and cannot now engage in an auction to see who will give you the most money. This is why many recommend against ED if the financial aid package is pivotal.</p>
<p>You might find this thread interesting. There are real risks.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/414118-ed-youre-can-you-back-out.html?highlight=bound%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/414118-ed-youre-can-you-back-out.html?highlight=bound</a></p>
<p>"Well here's my question though, theoretically, what if you wait for another college to send you a decision letter so you get their financial aid offer and they offer a better financial aid package. Wouldn't "This commitment is binding only if sufficient financial aid is offered," come into play because it seems sufficient financial aid wasn't offered since for example your #2 college sent a better aid offer? I'm just being hypothetical."</p>
<p>No, "sufficient financial aid" doesn't meant getting aid that matches any other college's offer. "Sufficient financial aid" means that by the ED college's standards, they met your financial need. They may give you less than your parents are comfortable paying. They may also have more work study or loans than you're comfortable accepting, but if by their standards, they met your need, you're stuck.</p>
<p>Now, if the ED college gives you aid that by their standards, meets, for example, only 80% of your need, then they probably would release you from your agreement. However, this does NOT mean that you can wait until April and then get released. Most ED schools give you your estimated aid with your ED acceptance. If you have a problem with your aid, that's when you need to talk to the ED school and get released from your acceptance if they can't give you what you need. </p>
<p>When it comes to places like Ivies that guarantee to meet 100% of your documented need, they are not going to release you because, for instance, a school like Emory offering merit aid offers you a full ride. The Ivies will release you to go to a public institution, however. The Ivies and similar colleges also send first tier colleges lists of the students accepted ED and those college will rescind offers if they know that a student whom they have accepted has an ED acceptance elsewhere. This is true, at least, for the private colleges. I don't think the public colleges care.</p>
<p>You don't get to play the game both ways. </p>
<p>Some students learned this the hard way a couple of years ago when Harvard allowed students who had applied ED elsewhere to also apply EA (which is no nonbinding) to Harvard. Some students got EA Harvard acceptances and ED acceptances from Podunk U. When Harvard learned of the Podunk U ED acceptances, it withdrew their EA acceptances because the students had made a commitment to attend Podunk U if accepted ED.</p>
<p>As so many of the posters have responded, the ED agreement that you signed and your highschool counselor signed spells out what you should do. In every case I have seen, you will have agreed to withdraw your applications to other colleges and ceased with any further apps. </p>
<p>I have noticed from many inquiries on this board, that students often mistake the LEGAL outlook on the situation and the "what they could do, if I don't follow the rules", rather than what they have agreed to do and what is the right thing to do. To cut through all of that crap, the answer as I have seen it, is that perhaps nothing will happen if you do not withdraw your apps. Those colleges who subscribe to the ED list will likely just drop your apps anyways, but maybe they will miss it and maybe your other colleges do not check the list. Maybe you will get an acceptance from another college with markedly better financial terms. Then what? Your counselor will certainly be displeased about the situation since she put her name and the highschool's reputation for integrity on the line. She may let it go. Or she may let your ED school know what you did AND the other school. And you may end up with them dropping you like a hot potato. Especially if this is becoming an issue to colleges. Maybe nothing will happen.</p>
<p>It's like cheating and stealing. You may not get caught and reap the benefits of doing so. But woe to you if you get caught. If you are smart enough and qualifed enough to get into those schools, you don't need to play these games that can turn into a terrible consequence and cause you to lose it all and put your integrity into question. Why on earth would you want to do that at your age when so much is going for you? You can fake a transcript, an EC, a rec. You might get away with it. But you might not. The same goes for playing around with the ED rules. You may well get a way with it but if you don't, paying the piper can be very painful.</p>
<p>How would you feel if the college that ED accepted you decided to withdraw its acceptance in April after getting a much better application pool than it had initially anticipated? What if it decided to withdraw its acceptance to you and accept instead a billionaire donor's kid. I bet you'd feel angry and would believe you were cheated. So, the same rules about integrity apply to your side of the ED contract.</p>
<p>I have one question: The contract is only binding if the sufficient financial aid is given. Doesn't that technically mean you do not need to withdraw applications untill you receive your financial aid package? Otherwise, if the financial aid package is judged to be insufficient, you have withdrawn your applications at other schools and now are completely screwed over.</p>