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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ongoing antitrust lawsuit could put an end to it. Colleges, like any businesses, can't agree to restraints on trade. They can't agree to a particular deadline. And they coordinate to blacklist or punish a student who violates an ED agreement (which is not legally binding).

https://www.cohenmilstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Complaint-DAmico-v-Consortium-on-Financing-Higher-Education-August-8-2025.pdf[/quote]
It’s not legally blinding but a college is never required to ever consider your application. So long as they aren’t discriminating, a college could arbitrarily decide applications submitted on wednesdays and sundays will be cut.[/quote]

If it isn’t legally binding maybe my kid should just ED to 20 schools and treat it like EA.[/quote]

That’s the issue. It’s the schools coordinating to enforce these nonbinding agreements that is the problem. If the schools find out you breached your ED agreement, they’ll retaliate and protect the ED school to protect ED as a whole. [/quote]

Other than Tulane punishing that private school in Colorado, I have not really heard of this happening. [/quote]

I have.[/quote]

Black listing an entire school is very uncommon. But when RD comes around and kid who EDed at Williams gets into Harvard RD and tries to back out, Williams will contact Harvard and ask them to “honor” the agreement by rescinding the Harvard acceptance. That’s the enforcement. [/quote]

Another way ED agreements are enforced is that (at least recently), college would disseminate lists of accepted ED candidates to peer schools so they could know not to accept them if they received an RD app. [/quote]

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