Hi,
I was just wondering , what if you apply ED , are accepted and then decide to go somewhere else for various reasons . Can the ED college sue you for not enrolling as promised or do you just pay the deposit and write a nice letter and that’s it?<br>
more or less, does the ED agreement carry any legal weight?
<p>Not sure. What I have been told is that the college you are backing out of ED at will generally inform some of your other colleges about it, which I suppose could revoke some admissions or lead to a rejection.</p>
<p>I doubt they are allowed to do that... do you know of any facts? does it make a difference if you back out for good reason or not and if you pay up or not?<br>
more or less, if i apply ed to a pretty good school and get in then in april get in by one of the ivies , is there any way to go to the ivy?</p>
<p>If you're talking about Early Decision, you're supposed to withdraw all of your other applications if you are accepted meaning you won't even have the chance to hear from the Ivy in the spring.</p>
<p>How is the ED school even going to know that you applied to another school? I know that the Ivies have a lot of communication between them (at least according to what I've read in various places), but what if the other school was non Ivy?</p>
<p>When you are accepted under a binding early decision program, your name and ssn are listed and colleges have access to that list so they can cross check whether you are still on their lists. Some will send you a postcard or email and let you know that you are being dropped from consideration for regular admissions. Some will just drop you and not bother to contact you. Also many schools send a note to your counselor who in many cases signed off on the ED contract when she sent your transcripts, to let him know that you have been accepted ED and that you are expected to honor your contract and withdraw your other apps. This is not just the ivy league schools. Any college that wants to have access to this list is permitted.</p>
<p>Severe extenuating circumstances can release you from ED commitments. But it is not an easy release. In the two cases that I know of kids who had to back out, the counselors had to inform the other schools where the kids had applied exactly what the situation was. A simple "we can't afford " does not do it. One young lady had a very ill father who was undergoing a bone marrow transplant, and she wanted to be released from her ED school to stay home during that year as it was a very difficult time for the family.</p>
<p>Wehether or not other schools were to find out, how about the fact that you give your word that if accepted you will attend?</p>
<p>hey, well i don't know about those ivy colleges but i applied to Cal Poly SLO ED and for some reason, i don't know if i wanna go or not...i asked the admission office and they said it won't affect your other college admission because they don't have students' database...so yea, that's what she told me. i meant, if you applied for ED, u still have to wait for the letter to come to see if you're accepted or not. if you got accepted, and they send you an agreement to attend, you don't have to agree. (also you have to make your decision by january or something to whether go or not) so yea...</p>
<p>I still don't get it: if you dont take up an ED acceptance offer cause u got into an ivy or other better school are you really looking for trouble or can you get away with it?</p>
<p>go48, reread Jamimom's post. You're playing with fire and you may very well end up with NO school to attend. If you're accepted E.D., you are required to withdraw any other applications which have already been sent in. A list is shared among many schools with identifiable information and if schools see that you have not withdrawn your applications, then you will automatically be dropped from consideration. You are also putting your school counsellor in a very difficult position because he/she also signed that E.D. agreement. You ask if people can get away with it. The answer is probably yes, but people also get away with murder. Do you really want to be someone who does not honor such an agreement? I hope not.</p>
<p>How is it that students are not getting the message in the fall that applying ED is B-I-N-D-I-N-G????</p>
<p>Someone who would want to back out of ED for non financial reason is really whoring the process. If you want to back out, then why did you effectively say you want to go there by applying ED?</p>
<p>let me explain my situation: I just got ed deffered from an ivy. My plan all along was if rejected from that ivy to apply ed to one of the numerous non ivies that have jan 1st ed. but now i have a dilemna:
-i can apply ed to a great place where i have about 60-70% chance and then hope that my defferal becomes a rejection in april
- not apply ed, diminishing my chances and hope for my defferal to become acceptance...
i'm leaning towards second option but would feel real stupid if eventually rejected from both... and would also feal stupid going to a non ivy if i could have went to ivy...</p>
<p>Once you get a deferral from school # 1 in th ED round all bets are off and you go to RD.</p>
<p>But if you apply ED round some where else (school #2) then that school becomes binding. </p>
<p>If you are holding out on the hope that you will get accepted into the deferred Ivy (school #1) , then you should just apply RD.</p>
<p>I beleive that in the end you are going ot end up where you need ot be.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that you can only apply ED to one school, even if a second school's deadline is after you hear back from the first.</p>
<p>ED means that if accepted, you will attend. If the school you apply ED to does not accept you (deferral is not acceptance), you can then make any application you want, including another ED. Just be careful that you really prefer the second school to the first, since if your deferral turns into a later offer, but you got accepted to the second school via ED, you will have bound yourself to the second school.</p>
<p>Go48, colleges do share ED information broadly...computers, SSN, and name make it very simple. What part of "Binding Commitment" do you not understand? Is it the "Binding" or the "Commitment"? Both words can pop up on the SAT Verbal.</p>
<p>They can't sue you and paying the deposit doesn't square the deal.</p>
<p>But your name/SSN will be out there to enough schools that you are likely to find yourself not being able to attend any other school that's anywhere near as prestigious, regardless of cost. Put yourself in their shoes, if you can: with so many people competing for spots, why waste one on an unethical self-centered jerk?</p>
<p>wait..but even if you get accepted, they have to send an acceptance letter to you to sign it right? if you don't sign it, or simply disagree with the statement that you don't wanna go, then you don't have to go. are we talking about after signing it, or before? if you didn't sign anything, i don't think it'd affect u yet...</p>
<p>No, you do not have to go to a school where you are accepted early, and the school is certainly not going to hunt you down to go there. Yes, you do have to send your deposit, your grades and go through the same steps that any acceptee does. The only difference is that your name and ssn are posted on a list as a binding ED student and that list is available for any college to crosscheck against their database. </p>
<p>There are students who do get away with breaking their ED agreements. There are also people in this world who do get away with stealing, assault, even .....murder.</p>
<p>The school has much better stuff to do than pursue legal action for a breach of contract; however, that "much better stuff" includes making your college admissions process a living hell.</p>