<p>You can only keep your admission by accepting it.</p>
<p>You can’t accept and also keep your application open to Harvard.</p>
<p>No one is stopping you from getting out of your admission right now. However, you can’t get out of it at the end of February or March while keeping your applications open to other schools.</p>
<p>Schools do throw out your application if they know you have broken rules under the honor code, whether it is legally binding or not.</p>
<p>Harvard at 2.7% admit rate or so during RD is a lottery ticket compared to being able to attend NU.</p>
<p>If you’ve already told your friends and teachers that you were accepted to NU ED, and later get an acceptance to another university because you did not rescind your application to NU as required, you will have to TRUST all of those “friends” that they will not report your dishonesty to the new school. Harvard already dealt with a cheating scandal in 2012 and made the Honor Code even stricter (similar to Yale’s Honor Code) because they want to discourage any form of CHEATING. If you try to cheat the system, this will reflect negatively on you with NU and with the other schools you refuse to withdraw apps from. </p>
<p>Just because you are QuestBridge and have strong (not ‘great’) stats, does not mean you’ll get into any other elite universities. I looked at the scores you’ve previously posted and do not believe you will receive an acceptance at any of your other schools during Regular Admission, especially because you are ASIAN MALE - a highly competitive bracket. Many elite universities will, unfortunately, limit the percentage of Asian students to 20%. </p>
<p>I believe you were accepted to NU because you are an ILLINOIS resident AND you applied Early. period. </p>
<p>If you really wanted Harvard, or “Princeton Yale Columbia UChi UPenn Stanford Notre Dame” (you mentioned those schools in a previous post) then you should have applied to them in the EARLY app period. </p>
<p>In this super competitive College application process, do you really think you will get away with cheating the system and no one reporting on you? Your “friends” are competiting for those same schools. If you took a spot and they were rejected, they may think that had you NOT taken the spot, they may have received an acceptance offer. Think about that.</p>
<p>Also, since you went through QB, the costs are funded, so you are not able to break the commitment on financial grounds.</p>
<p>It looks to me like you have agreed to accept this. Honestly, this is such a gift, from QB and to attend NU, it astounds me that you even question it.</p>
<p>Thousands of students would love to have this opportunity.</p>
<p>You know something? Shame on you. Through Questbridge, you have an <em>amazing</em> opportunity – the gift of attending NU. And yet it’s not good enough, and you want to back out of an agreement you made just to feed your ego to see if you got into Harvard?</p>
<p>You should be doing the right thing, which is – upon getting accepted to a university (any university) ED – graciously withdrawing any outstanding applications to other schools. </p>