petilon
March 20, 2021, 4:44am
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Is that true? My understanding is that you can’t simultaneously pay deposit to multiple colleges, but you can pay deposit to a new college as long as you tell the first college that you won’t be joining.
See this thread:
I applied to a university that has rolling admissions. I got admission… yay! The university’s web site says to “pay enrollment deposit to reserve your spot”. Reserving my spot seemed like a good idea (it is refundable in any case), so I did.
Now I am applying to another university using the Common App. Just before I press Submit I am presented with a set of “affirmation” checkboxes. One of them says: “I affirm that I will send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to only one institution; sending multiple deposits (or equivalent) may result in the withdrawal of my admission offers from all institutions.” WHOOPS!!! Now I can’t apply to other colleges?
I didn’t mean to commit to the other university by paying a deposit, and nothing on their web site says I am making any kind of commitment.
What can I do now? I don’t want to jeopardize my admission to the first university in any way, but I want to continue to apply to other universities.
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