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[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]

Ok, then why shouldn’t my kid apply to 20 schools ED. If they don’t even punish the kids after them there really is nothing stopping kids from doing this.[/quote]

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