The impact of a senior backing out of college commitment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Backing out of an ED commitment to highly selective schools ends up hurting so many other kids. But bad families exist. Private schools can expel these families, but there's not much public schools can do. Trashy people are trashy people. Universities will make a note of the school and move on to the other 25,000 high schools out there. If you are wondering why no one from your school gets in to certain colleges, that's why.

Make it make sense. Are they gonna expel the student the last week of school? I don’t think so.

The entire school could be BLACKLISTED

[Anonymous]

If this was an ED admit they broke, that’s bad - including for the school. If it’s an RD - no one cares, including the school they turned down. There are deposits and waitlists for a reason, and that’s part of the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is ED, it’s a serious breech. Counselors can withhold final transcripts.

That would be ridiculous and the height of jackassery to ruin a kid's future like that

Will you stop saying made up words like “jackassery” and “woke” on multiple threads. It’s annoying and makes you sounds like a rube.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone needs to settle down. The kid in question very likely committed to a RD school and now got off a waitlist.
It's very common and 1000% fine.


There is zero evidence that the kid is breaking an ED or double depositing or anything nefarious.

There is zero evidence this is an RD/waitlist situation. That’s why it’s critical information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It happened again at our school. A senior recently backed out of a commitment to a very selective college in order to attend another very selective college in the same region.

Why do parents allow this? It HURTS future applicants from the school -- those who would have been really happy to accept and keep their word.

I backed out. It made zero impact on future applicants from my HS.

[Anonymous]

No one should be posting if they don't know if it's ED vs RD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is ED, it’s a serious breech. Counselors can withhold final transcripts.

That would be ridiculous and the height of jackassery to ruin a kid's future like that

Will you stop saying made up words like “jackassery” and “woke” on multiple threads. It’s annoying and makes you sounds like a rube.

Look at this munchkin making up words like "rube".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ED commitment, no. Our counselor will literally kill you.

RD commitment? Yes, you can back out. You just lose the deposit that's all.

But only in the way where literally literally means the opposite of literally.

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/10/509035454/why-its-literally-not-wrong-to-say-literally

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is ED, it’s a serious breech. Counselors can withhold final transcripts.

That would be ridiculous and the height of jackassery to ruin a kid's future like that

Will you stop saying made up words like “jackassery” and “woke” on multiple threads. It’s annoying and makes you sounds like a rube.

Look at this munchkin making up words like "rube".

Please go to Merriam-Webster (m-w.com) and look up “jackassery” and then “rube.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Backing out of an ED commitment to highly selective schools ends up hurting so many other kids. But bad families exist. Private schools can expel these families, but there's not much public schools can do. Trashy people are trashy people. Universities will make a note of the school and move on to the other 25,000 high schools out there. If you are wondering why no one from your school gets in to certain colleges, that's why.

Make it make sense. Are they gonna expel the student the last week of school? I don’t think so.

The entire school could be BLACKLISTED

Not if it was a regular decision admit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ED commitment, no. Our counselor will literally kill you.

RD commitment? Yes, you can back out. You just lose the deposit that's all.

But only in the way where literally literally means the opposite of literally.

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/10/509035454/why-its-literally-not-wrong-to-say-literally

Literally the most worthless article that I have ever read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Universities are to blame for this. They created this problem.

Kinda agree. It’s inevitable.

[Anonymous]

OP ran into the room, clutched their pearls, and ran out again without actually providing the necessary info, and hasn’t returned. If this was anything other than an ED admit that they backed out of, OP has created 4 pages of blather about nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Backing out of an ED commitment to highly selective schools ends up hurting so many other kids. But bad families exist. Private schools can expel these families, but there's not much public schools can do. Trashy people are trashy people. Universities will make a note of the school and move on to the other 25,000 high schools out there. If you are wondering why no one from your school gets in to certain colleges, that's why.

Make it make sense. Are they gonna expel the student the last week of school? I don’t think so.

The entire school could be BLACKLISTED

And the all-caps for one word signifies a BOT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone needs to settle down. The kid in question very likely committed to a RD school and now got off a waitlist.
It's very common and 1000% fine.


There is zero evidence that the kid is breaking an ED or double depositing or anything nefarious.

There is zero evidence this is an RD/waitlist situation. That’s why it’s critical information.

NP. It is critical information. At this time of year, the natural assumption is that this was RD commit/waitlist.