<p>What happens if you tell a college YES, definitely you are going to a particular university but you just don't show up to any of the orientations or register for any classes? Or even not withdraw your application for admission.</p>
<p>As in, you show great enthusiasm and tell them you will be going but never follow through with that and don't tell them you won't.</p>
<p>You could tick them off and your school/GC won’t be so favorably considered unless you have a legit excuse.</p>
<p>And if loans or Fed grants came your way, I wouldn’t be surprised if the school takes a chunk out for administrative hassle.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, if you tell a school “yes” you have to give them some $$ as well–if not when you origninally commit, at some point before orientation and registration. If they don’t see the money, they don’t need a formal “no” to connect the dots. </p>
<p>If you send in the money and don’t show up, you lose the money.</p>
<p>Why don’t you just call the school and inform them you aren’t attending, if you have already paid your deposit you most likely will NOT get the money back.</p>
<p>Why would you even consider doing such a thing? Or is this one of those silly “what if the moon really were made of cheese?” questions? I certainly hope it is.</p>
<p>Just in case you are serious:</p>
<p>Obviously, you don’t have to find out what would happen if you really did blow off a school because you’re not going to do that, are you? You’re going to man up (or woman up) and tell them you have changed your mind so that they can give your spot to a student on the wait list who really wants to be there, and so you don’t screw over future applicants from your high school.</p>
<p>Please tell us why you are asking this question. I read some of your past threads so I see you are having some difficulties. If you can tell us the circumstances we may be able to offer suggestions for dealing with your situation. You can PM me if your prefer to be private.</p>
<p>For those of you who were asking about it, none of the universities I applied to required a deposit, so I don’t think losing the deposit was of any concern to me at the time. But last year, I DID do something similar to this, but not exactly this.</p>
<p>I submitted a “Yes, I WILL be attending” to every single university that I applied to, but I don’t know why I did that, seeing as how I can only go to one university. I suppose I did it because I still wasn’t sure what university I was going to be finally attending (In reality, I went to none of them). I did win a university’s top scholarship last year, but because I was still waiting on information on whether or not I would have enough money to attend, I didn’t let them know I wasn’t coming until late July when school started in early August. The department heads that provided me the scholarship kept calling me and texting my cell phone to tell me, “Hey! You haven’t registered for freshman orientation! You need to call the university and beg for a spot at this point!” Well, I was still delirious that I, a 17-year old, was going to somehow manage to come up with $16,000 in one summer. I thought that was going to happen but things kept falling apart as the summer went on. I did eventually tell the department chairs and the university I wasn’t coming by either e-mailing them or withdrawing my application.</p>
<p>The purpose of this hypothetical question was to ask what would happen if I hadn’t told them ever. Because of the way that large universities work, your one simple little request for withdrawal might get lost in a cascade of papers and never be found. I don’t ever know if my applications were ever officially withdrawn, considering how one of the prospective universities I applied to called me and said that my financial aid had to be revoked for not meeting scholarship requirements… in mid-March, a whole semester later. To reiterate, I DID submit a formal request for withdrawal of application to each of these universities, but past that, I was told once I’d submitted it was that was the end and I didn’t need to do anything else in regards to withdrawing. Because of my financial aid getting revoked at a university that I didn’t even attend almost 8 months later after I submitted a formal withdrawal application, that made me think that my request was never acknowledged.</p>
<p>Cameraphone - for future reference, schools can rescind an acceptance if you say “Yes I will be attending” to more than one university! It is a big no-no to do that…</p>
<p>Where exactly is this list of big no-nos? No one ever told me what to do when applying for colleges. I had to figure this all out by myself with no help from even the college counselor at my high school. “Assuming” everyone knows what to do or has someone to help them through it all is a big no-no all in itself.</p>
<p>The list of “Big No-nos” hasn’t changed since you learned it in pre-school:</p>
<ol>
<li> Don’t tell lies</li>
<li> Don’t be mean to people (treat other people the way you want to be treated)</li>
<li> Don’t steal things that aren’t yours</li>
<li> Don’t hit people - keep your hands to yourself
etc…</li>
</ol>
<p>You broke #1 and #2 by telling colleges that you would matriculate when you knew that it was not possible.</p>
<p>Making assumptions is not a no-no; rather it is a necessity of modern life. Even so, it is not clear who you are accusing of making this assumption. </p>
<p>Life is hard. Take responsibility for yourself but learn to ask for help. Using College Confidential is a step in the right direction for the college admissions process.</p>