<p>I applied to Columbia ED.</p>
<p>Let's say, hypothetically/optimistically, I'm accepted. If I sent RD applications to other schools, is there a way that I can wait to see if I was accepted to those schools, or am I obligated to withdraw all apps the moment I receive my Columbia acceptance letter?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Uh, I'm pretty sure you have to withdraw all your other apps.</p>
<p>Yeah, to be safe, you should withdraw your apps asap</p>
<p>thats the POINT of ED! If Columbia wasn't your first choice school that you would go to above any other school you were gonna apply to then you shouldnt have applied there ED. You are obligated to go there if you get accepted....I suggest, that if you do not want to go there, you should withdraw your ED app immediately (and of course forget about getting in RD if you do that).</p>
<p>Shraf is correct in the first part, but doesn't quite have it at the end.</p>
<p>If you want to switch from ED to RD, it probably won't take more than a phone call and I doubt it would significantly hurt your chances.</p>
<p>You must withdraw your other apps.</p>
<p>If you don't w/d your other apps and just try to see where else you get in, it's likely that nobody will notice or care so long as you don't try to enroll elsewhere.</p>
<p>^Wrong. If Columbia sees you are applying other places RD after admitted ED and have not withdrawn your apps, they have the right to take away your admission. If you have a rolling admission collge or an EA college I guess you can wait a few days after recieving the "yes" from Columbia just to see if you would have gotten in, but you have to send in the deposit by January 1 and I would assume all applications need to be withdrawn by then. </p>
<p>If you get into Columbia I would assume some of your other RD colleges are Ivys. As said on the Columbia app, the Ivys share ED admit information and the other 7 colleges will know if you were admitted to Columbia ED and will reject you. The Ivys honor each other's ED admissions and will not try to steal applicants from eachother. If you are applying to lower tier schools (why would you if you are in at Columbia?) then you may be able to see where else you can get in. I would not risk it though. You would be in at Columbia. No reason to throw that away. If knowing where else you can get in is so important, call Columbia and have them change your applicantion from ED to RD.</p>
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If you want to switch from ED to RD, it probably won't take more than a phone call and I doubt it would significantly hurt your chances.
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<p>I dont think admissions officers will be very pressed to accept you RD if you pretty much proclaimed that columbia isn't your first choice by passing up on ED after sending in an ED application.</p>
<p>Besides, once you're accepted ED you should stop trophy hunting and let other qualified students receive their needed acceptances.</p>
<p>venkater, does this ed sharing thing include MIT or Uchicago? a friend wants to know because she applied ED to Cornell and those 2 EA</p>
<p>I thought MIT was SCEA?</p>
<p>Switching the app from ED to RD shouldn't hurt your chances if you think you'll be qualified for admission in the RD round. You might have a multitude of appropriate reasons for doing so (the financial hardship of a binding ED commitment, undecided about your first choice, etc).</p>
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Switching the app from ED to RD shouldn't hurt your chances if you think you'll be qualified for admission in the RD round. You might have a multitude of appropriate reasons for doing so (the financial hardship of a binding ED commitment, undecided about your first choice, etc).
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<p>if a college sees that you are "unsure about ur first choice" and that there is a stronger possibility that you will not matriculate if they accept you then that puts you at a huge disadvantage</p>
<p>well, they see it as an honest move on your part. Sometimes colleges make decisions not only based on whether it's the applicants' first choice or not, but whether they fit the profile of the school and they think the student will thrive there. I mean people apply to a number of schools for a reason: though not all of them are their top choices, (simply because you can only attend one school) some of them are good matches for them and they thats why they apply.</p>
<p>Right. Not to mention that the only person who's going to see that you switched ED -> RD is probably a secretary, and the admissions officer not only won't know, but probably has specific instructions not to care.</p>
<p>from:</p>
<p>Joint Statement for Candidates on
Common Ivy Group Admission Procedure</p>
<p>Quote:
The College Board-approved Early Decision Plan, which is offered by Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton, requires a prior commitment to matriculate; thus a student may not file more than one Early Decision application among these or any other institutions. Financial aid awards for those qualifying for financial assistance will normally be announced in full detail at the same time as the admission decisions. An applicant receiving admission and an adequate financial award under the Early Decision Plan will be required to accept that offer of admission and withdraw all applications to other colleges or universities. All Ivy institutions will honor any required commitment to matriculate which has been made to another college under this plan. </p>
<p>I have heard that Chicago, Stanford, top LACs, and other top colleges share this info too. Don't tempt fate. If you get into a college ED marticulate. You may be able to get out of the agreement, for financial or other reasons (fiancial is the best reason though). Do not send in a deposit (due January 1) and then apply to other schools. The best case scinareo is the other colleges reject you and Columbia does not take away your admission. The worst case would be the other colleges and Columbia taking away your admission.</p>
<p>If you apply ED Columbia and EA MIT and Chicago that is fine, but you probably should go to Columbia if you get into all three. The other two do not mind that you applied ED, but they may be the type of school, if they see you got into Columbia ED, to take away your admission if you try to marticulate.</p>