Double depositing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're not planning on doing this but I'm curious as to how the WL sort themselves out otherwise?

Do they really expect people to turn down all other options on the off-chance they might get off a WL? That makes no sense. I thought the point was that you forfeit your deposit if you change your mind and they then pull someone else off the WL.

No, that is different. You accept one solid offer, so your kid has somewhere to go in the fall. IF you get off a waitlist, then you rescind first acceptance (forfeiting deposit) and accept second. At no point do you keep both schools on the hook That is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t come to an anonymous forum for this kind of guidance. Don’t accept this kind of judgment. People have their own agendas. Talk to family, friends, or just do your own pros and cons list. And help your child make a decision, even if other people may not like the decision. It’s not their decision.

Yeah, doesn’t this poster know how to operate in the shadows? Shine no light on things that are wrong, you might actually be held accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:just google it

if you do this you run the risk of losing both acceptances

For a reason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As described in another thread, that is considered unethical.

Please consider what you are teaching your child.

We don't need more selfish, unethical adults in the world.

It's only OK for colleges to be unethical (and immoral), take bribes, suck up to the rich, prefer one minority over another, etc. Students should not.

<Sarcasm>

Wow, is this your MO? It’s okay for me to do bad stuff because I am not the only one.

You don’t think your guidepost could get you into trouble. Too bad you never internalized a moral compass.

[Anonymous]

We were for a few days due to a wait list situation that we knew would resolve almost immediately. I would not do it for the entire summer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had to rescind from a private high school and it felt awful. I notified them the very next day DC was admitted off waitlist somewhere else and they made me feel like crap. Don't do this.

Does this school that made you feel like crap have a Waitlist? If so, they should STFU and you should never have spent one second feeling bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As described in another thread, that is considered unethical.

Please consider what you are teaching your child.

We don't need more selfish, unethical adults in the world.

How about colleges and universities placing hundreds and thousands of students it knows will never get to on their wait list just in case their yield projection bombs? Is that ethical? We already have “selfish, unethical adults” in the world.

[Anonymous]

Screw the ethics, this is a concrete risk. Explain to your kid that if they don’t make a decision, and you place a double deposit, they could end up at community college because they get their acceptances rescinded. When the choice is between UVA and Stanford, and you choose both, you just chose NOVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Screw the ethics, this is a concrete risk. Explain to your kid that if they don’t make a decision, and you place a double deposit, they could end up at community college because they get their acceptances rescinded. When the choice is between UVA and Stanford, and you choose both, you just chose NOVA.

I don't get it, why can't you choose one? It seems like if there is a real reason, like some kind of family illness the kid may or may not need to stay closer to home because of, you can tell the school and get an extension. Otherwise--if the kid is just indecisive--then just pick already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had to rescind from a private high school and it felt awful. I notified them the very next day DC was admitted off waitlist somewhere else and they made me feel like crap. Don't do this.

that's not a double deposit though, and they must deal with that all the time. And if you withdrew, they accepted somebody off their waitlist....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw the ethics, this is a concrete risk. Explain to your kid that if they don’t make a decision, and you place a double deposit, they could end up at community college because they get their acceptances rescinded. When the choice is between UVA and Stanford, and you choose both, you just chose NOVA.

I don't get it, why can't you choose one? It seems like if there is a real reason, like some kind of family illness the kid may or may not need to stay closer to home because of, you can tell the school and get an extension. Otherwise--if the kid is just indecisive--then just pick already.

Entitled people want to keep their options open for their snowflake children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw the ethics, this is a concrete risk. Explain to your kid that if they don’t make a decision, and you place a double deposit, they could end up at community college because they get their acceptances rescinded. When the choice is between UVA and Stanford, and you choose both, you just chose NOVA.

I don't get it, why can't you choose one? It seems like if there is a real reason, like some kind of family illness the kid may or may not need to stay closer to home because of, you can tell the school and get an extension. Otherwise--if the kid is just indecisive--then just pick already.

Entitled people want to keep their options open for their snowflake children.

Are you bad mouth colleges and universities for their waitlist practice of keeping their options open?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw the ethics, this is a concrete risk. Explain to your kid that if they don’t make a decision, and you place a double deposit, they could end up at community college because they get their acceptances rescinded. When the choice is between UVA and Stanford, and you choose both, you just chose NOVA.

I don't get it, why can't you choose one? It seems like if there is a real reason, like some kind of family illness the kid may or may not need to stay closer to home because of, you can tell the school and get an extension. Otherwise--if the kid is just indecisive--then just pick already.

Entitled people want to keep their options open for their snowflake children.

Are you bad mouth colleges and universities for their waitlist practice of keeping their options open?

She won't. That's how she has been conditioned. She strongly believes she "chooses" to act the way she does.

[Anonymous]

NP. College counselor we hired advised this is a something that can be done. Said, since you have been waitlisted at many places, you will anyway drop the offer if one of the waitlisted picked up. So, if you are in two minds still no harm in selecting depositing at two places until waitlist is cleared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As described in another thread, that is considered unethical.

Please consider what you are teaching your child.

We don't need more selfish, unethical adults in the world.

It's only OK for colleges to be unethical (and immoral), take bribes, suck up to the rich, prefer one minority over another, etc. Students should not.

<Sarcasm>

Banks are unethical, ergo it’s okay to rob them.