<p>"I affirm that I will send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to only one institution; sending multiple deposits (or equivalent) may result in the withdrawal of my admission offers from all institutions. [Note: students may send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to a second institution where they have been admitted from the waitlist, provided that they inform the first institution that they will no longer be enrolling.]"</p>
<p>So if I enroll in a non-common app school and then I get an acceptance letter from a common app school, I can't enroll there?</p>
<p>I want to reserve my spot in the non-common app school, but not if that means I applied for my common app schools for no reason.</p>
<p>I do not believe it matters whether or not the schools accept the Common App. If you state that you will not accept admission to another school, it means exactly that, regardless of whether they use the Common App or not.</p>
<p>Ok then I don’t think I’ll apply after all. Hmm.</p>
<p>What about those unfortunate people who get rescinded from a school they enrolled to, does that mean they can’t go to any of their other schools since they accepted enrollment?</p>
<p>[Note: students may send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to a second institution where they have been admitted from the waitlist, provided that they inform the first institution that they will no longer be enrolling.]"</p>
<p>Does that mean that you can enroll to one school, and if you change your mind you can tell them you don’t want to go, THEN enroll in the other school?</p>
<p>Yes, to your last question. If you are waitlisted at a school, and deposit at another school, and are later admitted to the waitlisted school and decide to attend there instead, you can inform the school where you sent the deposit that you will not be attending (usually forfeiting the deposit) and accept the offer from the waitlist school and send a deposit there.</p>
<p>Except for Early Decision admittance, you should have until at least May 1 to send in an enrollment deposit. However, for some schools with tight housing, you may need to submit a housing deposit fairly early to secure housing. </p>
<p>FYI - not all schools require enrollment deposits.</p>
<p>What if I wasn’t waitlisted, I was just accepted right away. I basically want to wait for Financial Aid offers, but I want to enroll to save a spot in case they do end up having the best offer.</p>
<p>Okay in simplest terms possible; Accepted to University X right away after applying, did not use common app. Currently applying to Universities Y, and Z. If you enroll in University X because you want to reserve a spot in their class, and are worried about getting rejected from Y and Z, does that immediately make them withdraw your application.</p>
<p>If (and only if) your deadline for accepting the offer from University X is before decisions/aid packages are forthcoming from the other schools (though I wonder how this could be the case), I wouldn’t hesitate to place the deposit to secure a spot at X, then withdraw from X if you later receive an more desirable acceptance. You may lose your deposit, but I think this is quite analogous to the waitlist exception, where the student has to protect himself, but is operating on only partial information. I see no moral issue here, as University X gets to keep the money and offer the spot to the next student in line. It’s not the same as holding open two spots over the summer. And I think it’s absurd to think that University X would bother to somehow hunt down what other schools you have applied to and “tattle” on your having deposited. Admissions officers have better things to do with their time.</p>
<p>When does school X say your deposit is due? If it isn’t until May 1, then once you have been given a spot, you won’t lose it as long as your grades keep up. I wouldn’t rush if you have a while until it’s due, or you have in the other offers to compare.</p>
<p>School X has rolling admissions, and their enrollment date is May 1st. I also want to get all of my Fafsa and other final things in ASAP.</p>
<p>Any advice? Basically I don’t want to enroll, then find out another school has a better financial offer, but I can’t go there since I already enrolled in the first one.</p>
<p>So wait till May 1 to enroll, at which point you should have your other fin aid packages. Your place is being held open until then, so what’s the rush? Not sure I understand your issue.</p>
<p>If you were admitted, you have until May 1 to send your deposit. I was confused, too. I thought you were possibly referring to an ED decision where you had already committed to a school. Otherwise, you were accepted, and they are holding a spot for you until May 1. You have until then do compare schools, financial aid packages, etc. Make sure you complete the Fafsa and any other FA forms required by all your schools by their FA deadline dates.</p>
I know that this was basically just explained, but what exactly do they mean on Common App?
It says “I affirm that I will send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to only one institution; sending multiple deposits (or equivalent) may result in the withdrawal of my admission offers from all institutions. [Note: students may send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to a second institution where they have been admitted from the waitlist, provided that they inform the first institution that they will no longer be enrolling.]*”
If I am only applying to colleges right now then what does this mean? I finished my first application on Common App and this confuses me. I was wondering if I am limited to anything and if so, then what my limmitaions are.
Once you are accepted, you usually make a deposit (a few hundred dollars) to confirm you plan to attend. You are saying you won’t double deposit (make this commitment to multiple schools) when the time comes. You usually have until May 1 to commit and make that deposit. But you aren’t supposed to lead multiple schools to believe you are accepting their offer of enrollment.
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