<p>The OP is a regular here, not a ■■■■■, blossom. I am a bit surprised that Lafalum asked the question in the first place!</p>
<p>Glad to hear your D has withdrawn her apps. Now she can focus on the rest of senior year and enjoy it without college stress!</p>
<p>My older S dropped a couple of schools after EA because he had two of his top three choices already and knew there were others who really wanted those other schools. When he turned down schools in April, he wrote a personal email to the regional rep/adcom at each one. He got very nice replies from every one of them, too. It’s good not to burn bridges.</p>
<p>To the extent S2 (or DH and I) have any “what ifs” about ED II, that’s something we’d all better be comfortable with before we sign the ED agreement and S2 hits that submit button. As someone who is the master of “what if” though, I can certainly understand the wanting to know and the emotions attached to it.</p>
<p>I too am the master of “what if” but my D is not and she was happy to apply ED last year. She was accepted and never looked back.</p>
<p>But that is the trade-off of ED: you GET an increased chance of acceptance (at most schools) and an earlier answer. you GIVE UP the ability to know what other options you might have had. it’s a pretty simple equation in my book.</p>
<p>^^Sorry I wasn’t more gentle, Lafalum. I’ll try harder next time. Congrats to you and your daughter on getting into her Dream U. Quite an accomplishment for which you and she should be very proud.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of cases where kids withdrew the applications, but word never trickled down to the admissions offices. My nephew was accepted at Bard even though he told them he was no longer interested. :)</p>
<p>I’ve heard of the kind of cases that mathmom mentioned, too. I’ve even heard of students withdrawing apps then being offered excellent merit aid from the schools from which they had withdrawn their apps. Consequently, it’s a good idea to keep a copy of your e-mail withdrawing your apps.</p>
<p>My S withdrew his app to Stanford as soon as he heard from his SCEA app. That was the only other app he sent, because it was due on the same day as the SCEA notification. He still got an admission letter on April 1 as well as recruiting emails from the adcom and from the department and even B-day wishes! I think the adcom did not act on his refusal until they actually received the postcard where he checked the appropriate box. And then, he received a lovely email wishing him the very best at H. I have had a soft spot for Stanford ever since for the gracious wishes.</p>
<p>Mine had applied only to rolling-deadline safeties before he received his ED notification. Withdrew right away by certified mail. None of his withdrawal letters were acknowledged; we kept the return receipts just in case. One of the safeties sent him an “If your plans have changed, we still want you” letter in the spring. Another sent the fancy merit scholarship certificate for his school to award to him at the end of the year… and still lists him as an admit.
So, Lafalum, your daughter may find out anyway. ;)</p>
<p>Do colleges ever rescind acceptance after ED, for example for poor grades senior year?</p>
<p>After an ED acceptance, I can imagine some kids get serious senioritis. What happens with a rescinded acceptance if all other apps have been withdrawn? I guess it is a reason to do a rolling admissions safety as well as an ED school, so that the acceptance could already be in hand.</p>
<p>“After an ED acceptance, I can imagine some kids get serious senioritis. What happens with a rescinded acceptance if all other apps have been withdrawn?”</p>
<p>If a student gets severe senioritis, they likely will lose all of their acceptances. Colleges will note their declining grades as meaning that the students aren’t ready to go to college, and the colleges will respond accordingly.</p>
<p>Having a rolling admissions safety admission in hand won’t help. Not only should the student have declined that acceptance after getting an ED one, even if the student kept that acceptance, the rolling admissions safety probably would withdraw its acceptance after viewing the students’ poor end of the year grades – something that all all colleges require. All colleges accept students contingent on the students’ receiving acceptable end of year grades.</p>
<p>At a true safety, especially a state school that admits mostly on stats, poor senior year grades probably wouldn’t be enough to pull the overall GPA down too much. A few C’s could certainly have a different impact on a Top 20 school than it would at Directional State U.</p>
<p>Are there any rules on how soon an ED accepted student should turn down a rolling admissions school? Should they do it immediately? Or can they wait for the normal decision deadline?</p>
<p>IIRC, the ED contract included with the Common App specifies that accepted students withdraw all applications (which we understood to include those that were already decided) immediately on notice of ED admission. geek_son’s admission letter came with a reminder about withdrawing the other applications and (again, iirc) a statement for him, me, and the GC to sign and return confirming that they were withdrawn.</p>
<p>A friend asked me just today what colleges do if for some reason you decide not to attend your ED school. (She knows the rules, just wondered, realistically, what the college can do. Sue you for tuition? /joke)</p>
<p>I guess they can make it difficult for you to go ANYWHERE.</p>
<p>Well, hopefully OP’s D, who has the natural curiousity to want to see what the results would have been, can be happy knowing that she was a real team player in this one, since the kids most likely to be dinged by this are, in fact, the kids she goes to school with…since that really is a factor in admissions decisions.</p>
<p>Good luck. It is a very happy day to reach your goals! I hope you had a great celebration.</p>
<p>“Are there any rules on how soon an ED accepted student should turn down a rolling admissions school? Should they do it immediately? Or can they wait for the normal decision deadline?”</p>
<p>They are supposed to do it immediately unless, for instance, they are still discussing financial aid with the ED college. Once the final financial aid offer comes in from the ED college, if that offer meets their documented need, they need to withdraw their other applications and let any colleges that accepted them know they won’t be attending. </p>
<p>When one applies ED, one gets the opportunity for an early acceptance in return for not waiting until May to let other colleges know that you’re not coming.</p>
<p>I have a related question out of curiousity that is not worth a separate thread and maybe someone could answer. </p>
<p>My D last year was accepted ED and EA to two schools at the same time in December. She immediately returned the form to the EA school declining their offer explaining the ED acceptance. But I just found out, upon seeing that the EA acceptance did not appear on Naviance, that her school actually withdrew the application even after she replied. Was this necessary? Is not declining the offer the same as withdrawing? Thanks for any replies.</p>
<p>Wildwood- Exactly the same situation that we had last year. The EA acceptance came the next day (I think) after the ED acceptance. D sent the form right away to the EA school, declining their offer (and merit package ). The school posted her result for the EA as a withdrawal on Naviance.</p>
<p>As a side note, a classmate of D’s accepted an ED offer from another school and then in April posted acceptance results for other schools (including one with no early admissions offers) on Facebook. Not good.</p>
<p>The GC sounds incompetent if she doesn’t understand the ramifications of an ED acceptance! Is she counseling other ED acceptees the same way? If so, your school could be blacklisted. If she’s not the Guidance Director of the high school, I’d check this out with the Guidance Director. And if she IS the Guidance Director of the high school, I’d go above her head.</p>
<p>At the risk of sounding dense, how can schools share the names of accepted candidates among other schools that tend to share the same applicant pool? What happened to the confidentiality of application materials? It’s true that an acceptance is not part of the candidate’s materials, but shouldn’t the fact that the person applied be considered confidential? This in no way should have any bearing on the need to withdraw other applications after an ED acceptance. If you signed that you will withdraw, then you must. There is a lot of law on the legality of electronic signatures, so just because it is not in ink does not lessen the seriousness of the signature. Not to beat a dead cart, but when people view their situation as an exception to terms of an explicit contract, those people have potentially set themselves up for serious negative consequences.</p>
). The school posted her result for the EA as a withdrawal on Naviance.</p>