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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much speculation. The ethics brigade would like it to be true that the school or student faces repercussions for backing out of an ED. This is not the case. Everyone we know that has backed out of ED acceptances for a better school have done so successfully. I’ve never heard of any school tell a student they shouldn’t apply ED to a school because a kid backed out the year before. I’ve never seen a school refuse to release a transcript. [/quote]

I don't think you understand ethics. It's not about repercussions, it's about integrity. Get some.

Don't lie and make your counselor lie on an ED agreement if you don't intend to abide.[/quote]

It's a business deal, one of the largest ones that most people will ever make on their own behalf. People back out of deals all for better deals all the time. Fortunately there is a contract in place and the aggrevied party is free to exercise rights under the contract. That's the remedy. They don't because everyone involved knows the contracts are worthless.  [/quote]

+1. And colleges will never sue to enforce an ED agreement. Because they don’t want an adverse ruling.  Which thy probably would get. [/quote]

They don’t need to sue, they can just inform the other school.  Acceptances get rescinded with frequency these days for many reasons.  And they can also punish the high school by blackballing them for a few cycles,[/quote]

If I’m a kid with the option to head to a T10, why do I care that my former school is being blackballed? It’s colleges punishing the wrong people.

And how many acceptances get rescinded for ED violations?  I’ve seen several ED violations. Never seen a rescission. Sounds like an urban legend to me. [/quote]

Some people care about how their actions affect others and try not to do purely self-interested things that are likely to have bad outcomes for other people. [/quote]

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