Paying deposit at a school

[Anonymous]

If DC pays a deposit at a school so they can get priority for housing, do they have to let other schools know and pull their application/turn down admissions?
If the answer is no, and something better comes along, can they go back to this school, cancel the acceptance and put down a deposit at the newly admitted school?

[Anonymous]

There's usually a separate housing deposit (which does not require you to inform other schools) and an enrollment deposit (which is a commitment to attend that school, so you should tell other schools you won't be attending).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's usually a separate housing deposit (which does not require you to inform other schools) and an enrollment deposit (which is a commitment to attend that school, so you should tell other schools you won't be attending).

This happens sometimes. More frequently, the deposit is one and the same.

[Anonymous]

You can cancel the deposit until 1 May at Tech, OP. Didn't you already get this answer in the FB group when you posted the same question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If DC pays a deposit at a school so they can get priority for housing, do they have to let other schools know and pull their application/turn down admissions?

no

Anonymous wrote:If the answer is no, and something better comes along, can they go back to this school, cancel the acceptance and put down a deposit at the newly admitted school?

yes

[Anonymous]

If the answer is no, and something better comes along, can they go back to this school, cancel the acceptance and put down a deposit at the newly admitted school?

yes, but you might lose the deposit

[Anonymous]

Is this frowned upon? I read other threads about kids "hogging" all of the acceptances which theoretically shuts other kids from their high school out. Do most people rescind applications if they've already put a deposit down?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can cancel the deposit until 1 May at Tech, OP. Didn't you already get this answer in the FB group when you posted the same question?

Not me. Haven't yet joined the FB group yet but thanks for letting me know that one exists..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this frowned upon? I read other threads about kids "hogging" all of the acceptances which theoretically shuts other kids from their high school out. Do most people rescind applications if they've already put a deposit down?

I believe most of the concern is at the time of initial application and acceptance by the school. If a student pays the deposit and then goes to a different school, the school can go to the waitlist (and there's no expectation that that the school would replace that student with one from the same school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this frowned upon? I read other threads about kids "hogging" all of the acceptances which theoretically shuts other kids from their high school out. Do most people rescind applications if they've already put a deposit down?

I'm sure it's frowned upon by schools because they lose the upper hand but so is 'holistic' admissions by a lot of students. Who cares?

I do agree that hogging, as in doing this at multiple schools, is something that's over the top, but how would schools know that students are doing it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's usually a separate housing deposit (which does not require you to inform other schools) and an enrollment deposit (which is a commitment to attend that school, so you should tell other schools you won't be attending).

This happens sometimes. More frequently, the deposit is one and the same.

Or, you cannot put down a housing deposit without first committing to the school.

[Anonymous]

This is definitely the case at UMD. Everyone will tell you to put down a $50 housing deposit early. It is separate from accepting the admissions offer. You need to cancel at some point in summer and you don't get $50 back.

[Anonymous]

My DC was admitted to school where the housing deposit ($100, I think) is separate from the deposit required by May 1 to commit to attend the school. So you can pay the housing deposit to get in the queue for housing assignments - but won't get the deposit refunded if kid decides to attend elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

PP here. My initial reaction was to pay the housing deposit but decided to just chill.