<p>Hello everyone, I'm just wondering what would happen if two or more colleges accept you UNDER ED. I know that some student as soon as get acceptance just withdraw applications, so what if all there will be many acceptance letters? what will they do if I dont go to their school? I'm an international student.</p>
<p>Please search the forum. This has been answered numerous times. When you apply ED, it is BINDING. You are pledging that if admitted, you will drop all other applications and go there. But you know this. Is what you are really asking “will they find out? Can I get away with it and break the contract with one?”</p>
<p>You can apply Early Action to more than one, not binding. ^ Some High School students may not know this yet.</p>
<p>You get rescinded and banned from all other schools, duh.</p>
<p>With Early Decision don’t play that game. The consequences are dire, so only one Early Decision application and if they accept you, that’s it; you immediately withdraw your applications from all the other schools.</p>
<p>Early Action (you apply early, they tell you early but you have the same decision date as the Regular Decision people), however, is a different story. Feel free to do multiple applications as Early Action.</p>
<p>To clarify: you can do multiple colleges EA as long as none of those colleges are SCEA, in which case you can only apply to that school and your in-state public(s). You can then accept or reject an offer of admission, and if you reject it (or are not admitted) can apply RA to wherever you want.</p>
<p>You can also apply ED to one school and EA to as many schools as you want, assuming none of them are SCEA.</p>
<p>It was much simpler back in the 60s.</p>
<p>The ED forms must be signed by yourself, your parents and your Guidance Counselor. Unless there’s a screw-up in your school, your Guidance Counselor will not sign more than one ED form per student, so, in theory, applying to/getting accepted by more than one ED school cannot happen.</p>
<p>thank you people very much! I was just wondering, if that is possible to apply ED to many universities and as the first acceptance comes, at once withdraw everything else. A friend of mine did that, we applied to Binding ED to one University, and he got acceptance from other one, also ED binding, and got away with just withdrawing. He is also international student.</p>
<p>Question: Would I be able to apply ED2 to a school if I got rejected/deferred from my ED1 school?</p>
<p>“The ED forms must be signed by yourself, your parents and your Guidance Counselor. Unless there’s a screw-up in your school, your Guidance Counselor will not sign more than one ED form per student, so, in theory, applying to/getting accepted by more than one ED school cannot happen.”</p>
<p>…??? My D, nor her parents, nor her GC ever signed any “ED Forms”. On the application there is a section to signify Ed or RD, that was all.</p>
<p>Some universities specifically request to not be sent the CommonApp ED agreement. Cornell didn’t want it.</p>
<p>“thank you people very much! I was just wondering, if that is possible to apply ED to many universities and as the first acceptance comes, at once withdraw everything else. A friend of mine did that, we applied to Binding ED to one University, and he got acceptance from other one, also ED binding, and got away with just withdrawing. He is also international student.”</p>
<p>Your friend got lucky. If the schools (including the one you want to go to most) find out you did more than one ED, your acceptances to all would be revoked and they’ll try to blacklist you so you can’t get into any other school ED, EA or Regular Decision. And since lot of the ED schools share applicant lists, the chances are pretty good that the other ED schools will find out. Is that a risk you are willing to take? On the other hand, you can apply Early Action to many schools (so long as it’s not the Single Choice Early Action type) just as you described with no penalty, and with the same advantage of applying ED: the higher acceptance rate. </p>
<p>The only problem would be if the school you want doesn’t offer EA but only ED or Regular Decision.</p>
<p>Jeeves, yes. Even if your ED 1 school defers you to RD, you may apply ED 2 elsewhere.</p>
<p>I had to sign my kids’ ED forms, but I don’t recall the GC having to do so. Personally i think that’s stupid, as the GC played no role in our decision making process other than someone who got transcripts from point A to point B. Rather like an ATM for transcripts. Besides, how would a public hs GC responsible for hundreds of kids know / remember that Johnny already applied to X college ED? Good grief, these aren’t things they have time to care about, process, remember. They’re signing pieces of paprer thrust in their face.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, a GC signature totally makes sense to me.</p>
<p>Maybe GCs in my kids’ school are less overwhelmed than the GCs where you are, but I don’t think it’s at all ridiculous that the GC (or the registrars, who actually send the transcripts in my kids’ school) would keep a record of ED/RD applications. I mean, I’m sure they’re not all working from memory. There must be a spreadsheet for each class’ college placement season.</p>
<p>And I would trust the GC to enforce the policy against applying to more than one ED school more than I would trust the parents. GCs have an incentive to respect they system; they, and the school, are in the system year after year. But the way I see it, the temptation for a parent to cheat the system, to gain the greatest advantage possible or his or her kid at as many institutions as possible, is probably as great as the temptation for students to game the system.</p>
<p>I’m sure it’s not perfect, but it makes a lot of sense to me.</p>
<p>The GC may not have to sign the form but the school has to send a transcript and the request for the transcript states it is for ED. That should clue the GC in to send out only one…</p>
<p>The guidance (college) counselor had to sign both of my sons’ ED forms.</p>
<p>Y’know, when there’s a dispute about facts, there’s this new invention called the Internet that can be real, real helpful.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/commonapp/Docs/DownloadForms/2012/2012EarlyDecision_download.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/commonapp/Docs/DownloadForms/2012/2012EarlyDecision_download.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Got it. I just mean that I wouldn’t have expected the GC to have necessarily remembered / processed my kids’ ED apps such that she’d say “oh wait! You can’t do that!”'if they had presented her with a second ED a few weeks later. It’s a piece of paper they handed her and she signed. End of involvement.</p>
<p>I see your point, Pizzagirl, and concede that it’s what may make the system less than perfect. </p>
<p>But I don’t think my daughter transacted most of her college business on the fly like that in her suburban public HS. I think she dropped forms off with a receptionist for her guidance counselor, and picked them up after they’d been acted on. That would probably make the guidance counselor’s signature more of a check against students’ gaming the system.</p>