<p>I have two problems with what you have said:</p>
<p>One: You said "So it's not really a matter of not being able to make up my mind, it's a matter of basing my decision on housing assignments which take place after a decision is meant to be made." Nobody ever has all of the information when they had to make a decision. What you said is just an excuse for not making the decision. When Napoleon made his decision to fight at Waterloo, did he have all of the information? Did he know how the French column tactics would work against the English thin red line? Did he know if Boucher would arrive in time to help Wellington? No, but he made a decision. You are not making a decision because you don't know your initial housing assignment for the first few months. There could be better reasons anyway.</p>
<p>Two: You said "I'm not worried about being rejected by either school over this". If that were true, then why did you ask in the title of the thread "is this bad?". Did you mean "is this bad?" in the moral sense, or were you worried about the risk?</p>
<p>Okay, people drive over the speed limit and risk getting a ticket. People jaywalk. Not everone follows the rules all the time. However, you are risking acceptance at both colleges over an housing assignment. Not even whether or not you have housing, but whether or not you will like it. A housing assignment that will last at most for 9 months, but you can probably change it after you enroll. The risk can be divided into "Will I get caught?" and "Will will happen if I get caught?". I don't know the answers, but colleges like to think that they operate on a high moral plan, and they really hate this kind of behavior. The punishment would be equivalent to a college finding out that you had cheated on the SAT.</p>
<p>Note to jamismom: The note on the slip about losing your deposit concerns if you are waitlisted at another college and withdraw your acceptance to the first school after being taken off the waitlist at the second school. Was there a note on the slip about promising not to accept two schools under penalty of having your acceptance revoked on either of the two slips that he signed?</p>