What happens if you're deferred?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
1

<p>If you’re deferred from ED, and then accepted RD, does your obligation to Brown still exist, or can you choose another school at that point?</p>

2

<p>Once you are deferred, the ED agreement doesn't apply anymore. If they accept you in the RD round, you're accepted, but you don't have the obligation from ED.</p>

3

<p>Are you sure? That's what I thought, but the Brown website doesn't say that (at least on the ED page where I was looking). That seems to be the whole idea, but...</p>

4

<p>That's correct for all ED schools as far as I know.</p>

5

<p>Yes the commitment is gone as soon as you are deferred.</p>

6

<p>^^^correct, the "contract" you sign stipulates that you are bound to the school if granted early admission, thus if you are deferred, the contract no longer holds.</p>