<p>Curious: on the famous May 1 decision day, can you send multiple cards with a YES response to multiple schools? What would the risk be for this? I see that the deposit required for this YES is $250. Would you only be at risk for this deposit or is it a legally binding contract?</p>
<p>why ? what if you were possibly trying to run down something still and coudl not come to a conclusion, for example, and you did not want to completely closee the door.</p>
<p>the school i sent my YES to said that they have the right to revoke my admissions if i hold a spot in more than one university after may 1</p>
<p>I remember reading the same thing in some of the school paperwork of the schools my D applied to. revoke of admission to both schools</p>
<p>Yeah, by May 1st, you must have only told one school, "yes." If you send in more than one, you must cancel all but one by May 1st. If you don't, have fun at CC.</p>
<p>Most schools will rescind their offer of admission if they find out that you've put multiple deposits down. This policy is to insure your commitment to their school and also to possibly give the people on the wait list a sooner response (if the school has a wait list)</p>
<p>thanks for the input. How about this question: can you say only one yes on 5-1, but then later rescind your Yes, and say Yes to another college that you were admitted to (assuming they have an opening)?</p>
<p>Is this possible:</p>
<p>You only say one YES on 5-1. Then later, say, 5/10, you contact other admitted college X -confirm that they have an opening-, and say yes to X (of course, you would say no to the 5/1 school and lose the 5/1 deposit)</p>
<p>May 1st is the point of no return. Once you say yes to one school, you cannot switch to another school after the date considering you are obliged to say NO to all the other schools. If you get off a waitlist though, it is alright to switch, with the assumption that you loose the deposit.</p>
<p>Please do not try to game the system by depositing to multiple schools. It is not only unethical, but ruins the chances for someone on the waitlist. Multiple YES SIR's can easily result in a waitlist descision being delayed a few weeks (aka hell).</p>
<p>Actually, iamnotspock's second scenario is fine (losing the deposit money to the first school) - you are not saying YES to two schools at once. You say yes to one, change your mind, revoke your YES to the first and say YES to the second. That's similar to waitlist acceptance and is appropriate. However, it's a dangerous scenario since most schools won't have the opening anymore - they will have gone to their waitlist.</p>
<p>If there's a legitimate reason for needing to delay your response, many universities will give you an extension on the May 1 date. A "legitimate" reason would be, for instance, trying to see if you can get enough loans to pay for your education. Not being able to make up your mind because you like two schools would not be considered a legitimate reason.</p>
<p>Another legitimate reason would be getting off a waiting list. All schools know that students may be waiting on other schools. That is the reason for the May 1 deadline!</p>
<p>If you get off a waiting list after you've accepted a college, you withdraw your acceptance immediately after accepting an admission offer from the college that waitlisted you. It's important to withdraw your acceptance. Don't just assume that the college you accepted will figure out you're not coming unless you tell them. Remember that that college has waitlisted students who may get an offer from their dream school once you tell the college you're not coming. Your second or third choice school can be someone else's dream college.</p>
<p>What about this scenario? You want to go to school A, however they state that anything less than a "solid C" on the final transcript (to be sent in June) and they may rescind their offer of admission. School B, your second choice, has no such stipulation. Worried that you may end up with a C- in a tough AP class, you send in deposits to both schools in case school A rescinds their offer. Ethical? Wise?</p>
<p>Not ethical. Not wise. If you believe you will be rescinded, send your deposit to School B. Period.</p>
<p>What about transfer students who are waiting for their last school to announce acceptance/reject, but have a May 1 SIR deadline for a safety?</p>
<p>Accept the safety, then if you get an acceptance from another school that you prefer, withdraw your acceptance and accept the school that you want. Your situation is similar to those of students who get accepted off waitlists. As long as they withdraw their initial acceptance, what they do is fine.</p>
<p>k I'm in a really crappy situation:</p>
<p>Several months ago I accidently accepted an offer of admission from Texas A&M. I contacted them to change the status but they told me that as long as I don't sign up for the New Student Conference I'll be fine. So I let it be, but then after reading this post, I realized that this may be really troublesome since I'm in a situation where I accepted admission from two schools (the other one being the school i intend to attend).
Anyone with an input? If what Northstarmom is saying is valid then whew!</p>
<p>For those who want to hold on to two schools because they can't decide, time's up. Get it over with and love your choice.</p>
<p>thirstyice, just e-mail A&M and tell them thanks, but no thanks.</p>
<p>People do this all the time and it is rarely ever caught...I even know that people have triple deposited, because of special cirumstances regarding one of the schools. It is not really the right thing to do as you are taking away someones spot on the WL, but it happens all the time.</p>
<p>For those of us that believe in karma (dharma), accepting admission at two schools is the worst karma I can think of. And for those of us who are anxiously waiting for waitlist results, let me speak for all of us-- accept admission twice, and we WILL find you.</p>