Many schools are reporting a much higher number of applicants this year. This may cause a wrinkle in the formula for calculating the rate of return for enrolled students. My guess is that schools may rely more heavily on wait listed students this year to fill in the gaps. What do you think?
What happens when you’ve sent in your deposit for one school and then you hear back from a waitlisted school?
thanks,
M
<p>If you decide to go to the school that admits you off the waitlist, you lose the deposit to the first school. It's done all the time, and is considered perfectly legitimate, not the same as double-depositing. Just be sure to notify the school as soon as possible after you make that decision.</p>
<p>so basically, deposting the second choice school on May1st and then (say) May20th withdrawling from the second choice school and deposting for the first choice school (which perhaps has accepted you from the waitlist) is totally ethical and legal and so on?</p>
<p>(um.. what's double depositing anyway? -_-)</p>
<p>"Double deposit", is sending in 2 deposits and holding 2 places by May 1. But I guess that since all schools send out wait list calls or letters after May 1, then its OK to assume that 1 deposit has been sent out and will need to be retracted. It's a bit of a grey area....</p>
<p>M</p>
<p>Double depositing would be sending in deposits to two schools that have both accepted you RD on April 1; that isn't done (our school's college conseling office specifically says not to do it, and obviously it is unethical).</p>
<p>If you are waitlisted at a school you prefer, however, and tell that school that you want to stay on the waitlist, you still need to send in a deposit at a school that has actually accepted you, becase that school will not hold a place for you without a deposit, and getting in off a waitlist is pretty uncertain so you can't just let the May 1 deadline go past without sending in a deposit. If you are then accepted off the waitlist at a school you would prefer to go to (which can happen from early May well into June or even July), you withdraw from the school you sent the deposit to and lose the deposit; very likely someone else will then get in off the waitlist to that school. This is standard procedure and a familiar routine to college counselors as well as to admissions offices.</p>