<p>@PrecociousUrchin Also you should probably know now, that the college confidential moderators look down upon promoting your own website or business through posts as specified in the CC terms of use.</p>
<p>@shawnspencer - We don’t just look down on it, it is against the terms of service, as you say. 99 times out of 100 it gets you banned. As you can see another mod deleted the reference to the web site.</p>
<p>Anyway, @notjoe is right, it is not illegal but it is theoretically actionable. It is a form of fraud.</p>
<p>No one has ever been taken to court over backing out of an ED commitment or for doing multiple ED applications. The most tangible consequence is that your high school would gain a seriously bad reputation. Backing out of an ED is bad enough, unless there are financial reasons. Overtly applying to 2 schools that way is 100x worse.</p>
<p>The person that said that admissions people might stumble across it by talking to each other and that they have access to certain “lists” is seriously wrong, though.</p>
<p>“our high school would gain a seriously bad reputation.” blackballing is not too harsh a description for high schools that don’t discourage this practice. High schools know this – and they jeopardize having zero admits for the next dozen years or so.</p>