<p>Poll:
If you/your child got into their early action* school, do you encourage them to withdraw any outstanding apps they had already submitted to other schools or do you encourage them to leave the other apps in to see how many acceptances they get?</p>
<p>D decided it was best to close out the other apps so her classmates wouldn't feel she was competing to take "their place" at the other schools. But many of the students want to see how many schools they get into and leave their apps in everywhere.....just curious what the majority do. </p>
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<li>Obviously for Early decision which is binding, you withdraw the other apps.</li>
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<p>I was accepted to my EA school last week. However, it was a “safety” school, one I had just applied to early in order to give myself peace of mind in April. (Hopefully, it works!) In my situation, I’m definitely leaving all my other apps out as the other schools are the ones I most want to attend.</p>
<p>I have a friend thought that was accepted EA to Yale. Being a legacy and totally sure about going, she sent in her deposit the day she got accepted, and immediately withdrew all her other apps.</p>
<p>I think it really depends on the reason for applying EA. I know on CC many apply to Stanford, Yale with Restrictive Early Action because those schools are their first choice. In that case, it’s probably much more common to withdraw apps. (On a sidenote: I don’t think Yale and Stanford actually want people to do this. They use EA for a reason, students shouldn’t feel bad for wanting to compare FA packages or offers from RD schools. That’s the point of EA!) If the EA school is just a state school or a safety, obviously people are leaving the rest of the apps out.</p>
<p>As long as you’re sure you can afford to attend and you will, then withdrawing the other applications would be a great courtesy and exceedingly polite. Other than that, no, you don’t have to.</p>
<p>Someone I know got in EA to Yale last year. She didn’t withdraw one application. It would make sense if she were only applying to like Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia or something. Yet she also kept her apps in for places that she (admittedly) could not see herself attending. A lot of people were annoyed with her.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t let my daughter maintain other apps if the sole reason was just to collect scalps. However, as posted, there can be very good reasons to keep applications ongoing. It’s a character thing: both for the kid and possibly parents.</p>
<p>I have two classmates (I’ll call them student A and student B) – at a very competitive school – who were accepted into Stanford and Yale, respectively. A’s dad is a physician, and B’s mom and dad are physicians, so I don’t really believe that financial aid is a problem, especially considering the financial aid policies at S and Y, anyway. As far as I am aware, neither has withdrawn all of their apps; I have heard that A plans to withdraw from a handful of top-20 schools but plans to stay in the running for HYP and others; B will definitely stay in the running at a few other top schools, as far as I know.</p>
<p>Personally, I was disappointed, especially since I know that their “other” applications (especially those to the Ivy League) will overlap with some of my own, and academically I’m a not quite as competitive as they are. They’re still friends of mine, but I have to admit that it does put a bit of distance between us. Ultimately, though, I realize that they are allowed to apply where they please, and that there’s nothing that I could do about it, and that even if there were, I probably wouldn’t, but nevertheless I can’t help but feeling frustrated.</p>