<p>So... I know someone (who I don't particularly care for) that is applying ED to columbia and SCEA to yale despite the rules clearly banning this. Do any of you know of cases where students tried this/something similar and got busted?</p>
<p>Can you do us all a favor and spill the beans on this kid?</p>
<p>You’d honesty be a hero on the Yale Forum.</p>
<p>I agree. That is just unfair and if the person does get in, he might be taking the place of someone who does deserve to get in.</p>
<p>I don’t know exactly what Columbia’s policy is, but the student is violating Yale’s SCEA policy by applying simultaneously to Columbia ED and Yale SCEA. If either school finds out, the student’s application will be denied or an acceptance revoked. (Columbia will probably honor Yale’s policy, even if it allows simultaneous ED/SCEA applications.) </p>
<p>A few of these stories pop up on CC every year. I wonder how the students get away with it. The GC had to sign off on these applications and submit transcripts and recommendations to each college. Wouldn’t s/he have been aware that the student was improperly submitting multiple ED/SCEA applications? When students do this, it tarnishes the credibility of the high school’s college counseling department and harms the chances of future applicants from the high school.</p>
<p>I’m not entirely certain as to how things worked with guidance for him. As for “spilling the beans”, how would one go about doing that?</p>
<p>^One could send an anonymous email to both schools. Both schools could verify the email with a simple phone call…</p>
<p>Perhaps an anonymous email to Admissions saying " [state his name] has broken the SCEA policy by also applying Columbia ED." They could then contact Columbia to confirm it.</p>
<p>Lol.
Plotting to destroy a cheating kid’s future. I love it.</p>
<p>A cheater should not get in over a deserving kid. This is justice!</p>
<p>Actually, it would probably be better to inform his/her guidance counselor to let him/her handle it with the schools rather than you speaking directly to the schools.</p>
<p>It’s probably not true. It would hard to do.</p>
<p>“Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone”.</p>
<p>^ which will be set aside in this cut-throat environment when an obvious cheater is standing in your midst.</p>
<p>When I see a thread like this, I always suspect that the OP is fantasizing about doing this, and wants to see if the consequences would really be all that bad. The answer is that it isn’t easy to do, the risk of exposure is signficant, and the consequences would be serious.</p>
<p>@Hunt: Yes I’m so likely to bring this up the day before applications are due because I just want to flout the system so badly that I’ll bring attention to myself about it!</p>
<p>Well, you could be thinking about doing it next year.</p>
<p>I agree with Hunt. Whenever these threads come up, I always suspect the OP, especially since the OP in these kind of threads always have a very low post count. and I’m sorry, your post count is pretty low.</p>
<p>Assuming that OP is actually talking about someone else, spilling the beans might seem mean but if that kid takes someone else’s place in either schools, that’s incredibly unfair. Inform the guidance counselor, maybe?</p>
<p>I do suspect that the OP is trying to pull this off himself. I can’t be certain. But if you do try that, your counselor will most likely catch that.</p>
<p>^Maybe the OP’s low post count is because he joined specifically to ask this question?</p>
<p>I believe you, OP!!!
haha.</p>
<p>UM. I think you could talk to the GC, but if GC is incompetent/doesn’t seem to care, perhaps email the school anonymously? Or call and ask what you should do?</p>
<p>^
I agree with quomodo.</p>
<p>Speak with your own guidance counselor about it.</p>