Can we submit ED 1 for 2 schools and withdraw

[Anonymous]

2 schools have notification dates a few days apart. If he gets accepted at the one with earlier notification date, can he withdraw the other application with the later notification date?

[Anonymous]

You cannot apply ED to two schools. Your HS won’t allow it, and won’t provide the supplementary materials to more than one ED school.

I also highly recommend your kid take an ethics class in college. They clearly aren’t going to learn anything at home.

[Anonymous]

Your school’s college counselor should and probably will put the kibosh on this plan.

[Anonymous]

I don't think the Common App allows you to apply to several ED1s. You'd have to use different platforms.

Legally, you could withdraw before receiving a decision, but in practice it's considered unethical, because you are assumed to be honor-bound by your ED commitment.

Apparently some students request to change their ED application to RD to avoid the scrutiny involved with withdrawing.

But all this is assuming you do all that BEFORE you get a decision. After, it becomes a lot more complicated to get out of your ED commitment.

[Anonymous]

Another point is that colleges sometimes notify before or after their stated decision date. Trying to game this system will result in college 2 notifying early and binding you to that while college 1 notifies later and after #2.

[Anonymous]

No, you can’t, but aside from it not being allowed, the notification dates are not usually finalized until days before they are announced, so this wouldn’t even reliably work if it were permitted.

[Anonymous]

You as parents and your child have to sign the ED agreement at the time of applying that says you are applying to only one school. Further the cc has to sign that this is true so no, it is not possible.

[Anonymous]

The truth is that it is possible that you will be able to pull this off.

But it is unethical, and will involve lying. Do you want to teach your kid that they need to lie to get into college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The truth is that it is possible that you will be able to pull this off.

But it is unethical, and will involve lying. Do you want to teach your kid that they need to lie to get into college.

Difficult: the high school counselor who gatekeeps the transcripts and obligatory counselor letter of rec will not want the kid to apply ED1 to two schools.
The decision dates might change. They often do. The college whose ED you want to withdraw might give you a hard time, even if it's before decision date. And if it's after decision date, they might call other colleges to have your acceptance rescinded, and your high school might be flagged which will impact the next graduating cohort.

You can try... and if you do, please update here. I'd like to know

[Anonymous]

Your college counselor has to sign a form in the application that states that they are only sending your kid's transcript to one ED school. No private high school would ever lie on your behalf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You as parents and your child have to sign the ED agreement at the time of applying that says you are applying to only one school. Further the cc has to sign that this is true so no, it is not possible.

One small clarification: you can only apply to one school ED, but you can still apply to other schools EA (assuming not RCEA). If you hear from the ED school first, you have to immediately withdraw from the EA schools. If you are accepted to the ED school, you cannot attend the EA schools, regardless of order of notification.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You cannot apply ED to two schools. Your HS won’t allow it, and won’t provide the supplementary materials to more than one ED school.

I also highly recommend your kid take an ethics class in college. They clearly aren’t going to learn anything at home.

(New Poster.)

Rude, unnecessary comment to one who has done nothing more than ask a question before acting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You as parents and your child have to sign the ED agreement at the time of applying that says you are applying to only one school. Further the cc has to sign that this is true so no, it is not possible.

One small clarification: you can only apply to one school ED, but you can still apply to other schools EA (assuming not RCEA). If you hear from the ED school first, you have to immediately withdraw from the EA schools. If you are accepted to the ED school, you cannot attend the EA schools, regardless of order of notification.

Someone told me this scenario last year. They applied ED to a school and EA to another. EA came back a few days before ED. They thought they could withdraw the ED application and take the EA admission. The got into the ED and the EA but took the ED so I have no idea if it would have worked.

[Anonymous]

If you are really not sure which of the two is the right fit, I would just apply regular decision. Ed is definitely for students that are operating with a lot of certainty that they know their first choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot apply ED to two schools. Your HS won’t allow it, and won’t provide the supplementary materials to more than one ED school.

I also highly recommend your kid take an ethics class in college. They clearly aren’t going to learn anything at home.

(New Poster.)

Rude, unnecessary comment to one who has done nothing more than ask a question before acting.

But it's a question about something that is clearly not allowed, and OP is trying to figure out whether they can do it without getting caught.