<p>Lets say I got accepted from both colleges and denied one, will the other college denied my acceptance if they find out that I applied to another college as well? </p>
<p>I am not really thinking of applying to 2 ED colleges but I am really curious to know about the outcome. ;) </p>
<p>You can’t. Common App only allows you to select one college as ED.</p>
<p>Plus, it’s illegal, so you should’t do it.</p>
<p>I guess, theoretically you could use the Common App for one and the Universal for one XD. But like @shawnspencer said, it is illegal because of the binding contract. Also, colleges act like little girls on the issue and if you try and back out of the ED or something, they reserve the right to tell other schools that you aren’t good for your word. And I think they have lists of names of ED applicants that other colleges can request and stuff, atleast that’s what it sounded like to me when I was at the Duke admissions session and whatnot. We never really know what goes on behind closed doors with admissions, but I will say, applying to two schools ED would probably backfire.</p>
<p>I thought you could apply ED to 1 school and if you were declined then apply ED 2 to another school. </p>
<p>well, it’s not *illegal" (though I’d love to see the courtroom drama created around that crime 
but it is a combo of “not done” “morally wrong” “will hurt future applicants from your school” “will besmirch the rep of your guidance counselor” and “may even result in having your acceptance rescinded.” So select your favorite outcome. </p>
<p>^^ You can apply ED in two different rounds to two different schools, as one takes place around EA time and the other RD time, but the OP sounded like he/she was talking about concurrently applying ED to two different schools in the same round.</p>
<p>Well you do explicitly sign a contract when you submit the application saying that all is true and you will not apply ED to another school, attending if accepted. If that is not illegal, I am not sure what is</p>
<p>Your guid counselor also has to attest to only one ED app being sent. Unless they’re a newbie, they won’t be complicit to this.</p>
<p>@Pikidikitiki wrote
Obviously, he/she thinks it’s OK for colleges to extend advantages to people in exchange for a promise not to apply elsewhere ED but feels it’s fine for the applicants to just take the advantage w/o being committed. I wonder how he/she would feel if someone proposed to his/her daughter while also being engaged to someone else at the same time?</p>
<p>You cannot get your GC to sign both.</p>
<p>@T26E4 I was just making a mockery of the way it is, but I acknowledge it needs to be that way. If not for the sake of the contract, for the sake of forcing you to actually have some integrity. Either way, I said you shouldn’t do it. And the situation you mentioned is an interesting way to put it. lol so I’ll give you that, made me laugh. But yeah man, take what I said with a grain of salt, I was just trying to explain what would happen in a satirical way.</p>
<p>LOL — i probably read your post too quickly, PDT. No probs</p>
<p>“I am not really thinking of applying to 2 ED colleges but I am really curious to know about the outcome.”</p>
<p>Do you believe in Karma? Or the Rule of Three? Or the power of a guilty conscience?</p>
<p>SOME people do get exposed and have their acceptances revoked and other schools notified, in essence being black balled by other schools. Others get away with it. But you do sign a contract, and it is your integrity that is on the line.</p>
<p>I guess applying to 2 ED is not a good idea. </p>
<p>Aside from the fact that the Common App will not allow you to do it, your Guidance Counselor will not send ED packets to 2 schools.</p>
<p>In our high school, any ED application involves a meeting between parents, student, guidance counselor and sometimes principal before guidance will forward your transcripts and paperwork. The ED process and commitment is thoroughly reviewed to make certain that everyone understands the legality and the financial commitment you are making. </p>
<p>High schools understand that student’s who violate the ED process/commitment create major problems for your high school’s future applicants to the colleges involved. </p>
<p>^ ^ ^ ^ Wow. My daughter’s ED/GC experience was “sign here, please.”</p>
<p>@usernamelm that is the same in our school. </p>
<p>My younger son did ED at Cal poly SLO and did not require any signatures from anyone except the students on the CSU application. It did not matter because he had no intention of changing his mind.</p>
<p>@shawnspencer,</p>
<p>“Well you do explicitly sign a contract when you submit the application saying that all is true and you will not apply ED to another school, attending if accepted. If that is not illegal, I am not sure what is”</p>
<p>I imagine it’s a breach of contract, which isn’t exactly “illegal,” but is actionable in civil court.</p>
<p>Another reason not to apply ED to two colleges is that members of the admissions committees might know each other and casually discuss the applicants. Since many approach adcom work as a profession that requires networking for sustainability, it’s feasible that staff at two culturally dissimilar schools could be in conversation with one another about you. </p>
<p>@PrecociousUrchin adcoms are not allowed to discuss applicants with other adcoms</p>