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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know of someone who broke it. That school put the word out and other schools revoked their offers. Kid did their first year at the local community college. [/quote]

Didn't happen.  No way the colleges are organized enough or willing to spend the time to contact the other schools.  [/quote]
Oh, but it did happen and DOJ opened an investigation a few years ago. Probably nothing happening with DOJ at this point, but the colleges were warned.

https://www.gazettenet.com/amherst-college-is-part-of-federal-probe-16803518
[quote]dean of admission and financial aid at Amherst College — in a 2016 U.S. & World News Report article titled

“[Fretwell] says her school and about 30 other colleges share lists of students admitted through early decision,” that article reads. “And Fretwell says she’d likely also share the names of students who were admitted via early decision, but who are not attending for financial aid and other reasons.”[/quote][/quote]

DP: +1 Yes, it is a practice.

If interested in more information about the legality of early decision see: https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1300&context=mhlr

[quote]"Andrew Belasco, Ph.D and chief executive officer of College
Transitions, also acknowledges that “there are groups of colleges that share
lists of early decision acceptances. ‘If a student backs out of an agreement
and attempts to apply to a college within this group, it is very unlikely that 
they will be admitted.’”219

The understanding between the schools is that the other schools
will withdraw those students accepted elsewhere from their applicant
pools.221 “Even without legal ramifications, bowing out of an ED acceptance
can hurt [a student’s] chances of acceptance elsewhere.”222 As such, colleges
that have extended admissions offers under ED only to discover the
prospective student applied ED to more than one school may even
withdraw their offers.

Michele Hernandez, a former assistant director of admissions at
Dartmouth and author of A is for Admission, explains that colleges do not
routinely share student information.

[b]The only information that is shared among all highly selective
colleges is a list of those students accepted early decision or early
action, because of the commitment on the student’s part to honor
the agreement. When Dartmouth finishes its final decisions for
the early-decision applicants, it mails a list to the Ivies and several
other highly selective colleges[/b] . . . so that systems technicians can
run the names through the computer and check to see if anyone
who is already committed to attending Dartmouth has applied
early action or early decision somewhere else. Most of the other
colleges would do the same, thereby making sure that students
follow the rules.223

Dartmouth is far from alone in this practice. [b]As many as fifty colleges
engage in sharing ED information.[/b]224 “Early Decision colleges practice this
form of reciprocity for self-protection.”225 The authors of The Early
Decision Game even hypothesize that “[i]t is conceivable that courts would
find the sharing of lists of accepted ED applicants to be collusive and illegal.
[b]There have been no court cases on this matter, and the legal scholars we
consulted disagreed about the legality of the practice.”[/b]226[/quote][/quote]

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