<p>If you reserve a spot for your college's class, do you have to attend that college??? Acceptance letter says please reserve spot ASAP but if I do, do I have to attend there?</p>
<p>Don’t they usually give you til like late Spring to send that in? Reserving a spot indicates to a college that you definitely want to go there, and if you send a deposit in to a college you’re probably not going to attend then you’re claiming a spot that could go to someone who really wants to go.</p>
<p>There are always times when people send in their deposit and then don’t end up attending that college. Colleges are aware of that fact and sometimes it is referred to summer melt. It isn’t alot of students but it does happen.</p>
<p>My S was encouraged by one school to send in a deposit as soon as he got his acceptance. It would give him an advantage in the housing process. We were told if he decided before May 1 that he would not be attending that school, they would refund his deposit. At the second school to which he was accepted, that was not the deal. If you sent in the deposit and decided not to attend, you forfeited the deposit, regardless of when you notified them.</p>
<p>You should call and ask what their policy is.</p>
<p>Unless you applied ED and don’t have financial or a family emergency reason to change colleges, the answer is “no,” you don’t have to attend the college. You just lose your deposit.</p>
<p>I would just like to say that it is not right to make deposit to multiple schools. When you make a deposit, you are making a commitment to go. It is different than to just make a deposit for housing. You are holding a spot otherwise someone else could use if you are not sure about going. It is different if you should get off a waitlist school later and change your original intend.</p>
<p>^^I think it depends on timing. If some rolling admissions college is pressuring you to send in the deposit now and you later get into Reach School on April 1st, I got no problem with pulling out of the 1st school in favor of the 2nd even though it’s not a wait list situation. A deposit is a deposit, not an ED commitment.</p>
<p>I think it’s fine to deposit and then withdraw if something comes up later, as long as you do so promptly. Some colleges will even refund your deposit. I don’t think it’s acceptable to deposit at multiple colleges at the same time, though. That’s just not nice at all.</p>
<p>Clearly lots of students send in a deposit and then do not attend. Many students are accepted off of wait lists over the summer before they are to start freshman year. They must have already put a deposit down on another school which they then do not attend.</p>
<p>Every student I know has only one deposit in at a time, not multiple deposits. School will not make you attend, will not make you responsible for the tuition, but most likely one would lose the deposit.</p>
<p>Yes, you can drop later. They can’t MAKE you go. But why do you have to send it in? Is there a benefit? Can you get in a housing queue if you accept now? Will they refund any/all of your deposit if you later withdraw it (our state Uni refunds mot of it). They’re probably “selling” you, asking for the deposit now. But, if there is something in it for you (housing, consideration for scholarships, earlier sign up for classes), then…yes you can.</p>
<p>My own niece was enrolled in graduate school, had her housing assignment, etc. It was SUMMER and she got off a waitlist for an Ivy school and dropped the first school flat. They understand. They know if a better offer comes along you can’t refuse it.</p>
<p>I checked this two years ago, and there are definitely some instances where it’s perfectly acceptable. In my DD’s case, she sent a deposit to college A, withdrew her acceptances in all other colleges except college B where she was waitlisted, and I checked and it was OK. When she got accepted at B, it was quite appropriate to decline A and take B.</p>