<p>just tell them you got off your first choices waitlist, like i said. Then you have a reason. Be polite about it, and you don’t have to tell them which school</p>
<p>But then I’ll be lying. What if they follow up on it?</p>
<p>Just tell the truth. Call and explain that your mother enrolled you without telling you. She probably was hoping you’d come to agree with her and went too far. Be patient with her! It was wrong, but who doesn’t make mistakes? Call admissions on Monday and explain what happened and apologize for the mistake. They are adults and human. They will understand.</p>
<p>Call them as soon as you can and explain the situation. I would just tell the truth, rather than making anything up. What your mom did was probably illegal, technically, but the college is not going to send the SWAT team storming in to arrest her or anything.</p>
<p>IF the OP tells the truth and the admission people think that he is just using his/her mom as a excuse they are more likely to rescind both and/or investigate deeper than the OP just saying he got in via waitlist. Why is this? Because I bet there are 99 times that a student has needed to withdraw an enrollment due to getting into another school via waitlist for ever 1 time something like the OP’s situation pops up.</p>
<p>The college will not follow up.</p>
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<p>Better just to withdraw the one deposit, but, yeah, tell the truth if you’re asked about what happened. Say “It was a mistake,” which it certainly was on someone’s part.</p>
<p>you are not obligated to say where you were “waitlisted”.</p>
<p>Before you do anything else, you need to sit down with your mom and decide together on one school.
Then, you need to go with the truth. If it’s school B you are withdrawing from, I think your mother could write a note of apology.
This all needs to happen as soon as possible, so you are not hurting another student on the waitlist.</p>
<p>I agree you need to sit down with your mother and sort this out. Assuming you are then still enrolling in your first choice school, then write a note to, or call, the other school and tell them what your mother did. No need to make up stories here - just tell the truth.</p>
<p>Change your passwords.</p>
<p>Will not be any problem. The school will just keep your deposit and make another student happy by taking them off the wait list. It’s a win-win scenario for the school.</p>
<p>make no difference. there is only one of you. so whichever school you attend is all that matters. the school which you do not end up going to will assume you are a no show after no confirmation.</p>
<p>If you want to notify the other school, just give them a call</p>
<p>Double-depositing can have consequences as stark as rescinding offers of admission, so even if that is not a sure risk here, this is worth clearing up. But initially all the OP has to say to the one college is “my online deposit was a mistake, and I don’t intend to enroll at your college,” and there is no need to lie about anything at any stage.</p>
<p>You really do need to sit down and talk to your mom and soon. Before you can attend either of the schools, your high school counselor is going to need to send a final transcript and certification of graduation–and will send this to only one school.</p>
<p>You and your mom need to decide which one to designate. While you can designate the school you prefer–not your mom–if she won’t pay for it, that’s a big problem.</p>
<p>If the high school doesn’t send the documents to the school she prefers because you did not designate that college to receive them–that’s a big problem because the college will not enroll you without them.</p>
<p>Your mother caused the problem and she needs to clear it up. She needs to call the admissions people at the school SHE deposited to and explain how much SHE loves the school and how deeply saddened she is that you do not agree. End of story.</p>
<p>What happened? Did everything turn out OK for the OP?</p>
<p>I think it should be fine if you have your mom speak to them and clear things up. The admissions office might even find this funny and have a laugh over it with other admissions officers about insane parents.</p>
<p>This is your only option and you need to do something ASAP.</p>
<p>I’m baffled that your mom more or less wasted a couple hundred dollars simply because she wanted you to go somewhere – enrollment fees are nonrefundable, so either way you’re going to lose one of them.</p>
<p>It’s not as dire as people make it seem – accidentally or purposely sending in an enrollment deposit to two schools is not going to get your acceptance rescinded in the majority of cases (how would they even know?) There’s no need to lie or even explain the reason, just withdraw your enrollment from whatever school you’re not going to next year.</p>
<p>No, your mom is not going to get into serious trouble. This is not identity theft or mail fraud. It’s probably not even illegal, unless you’re over 18 and your mom signed your name on a school form (your parents are allowed to sign contracts for you if you are under 18). It’s a mother acting on behalf of their dependent child who lives in their house for financial reasons.</p>