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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t work like that OP. [/quote]

How does it work?[/quote]

By this point decisions have been made. Maybe your kid is on the waitlist and that slot will open up because an EA student drops but it won’t matter at this stage before the decisions are released in a few weeks.[/quote]

So the same principle applies. Maybe it will open a spot to someone on the waitlist.
Don't be a selfish dick and hold a spot you have no intention of taking. Just b/c you can, doesn't mean you should. And a decent person would relinquish it.

(And before the snarky "sorry you're kid didn't get accepted" comments, my kid is not graduating and headed to college this year).[/quote]

I agree--once you have made a decision (ie 100% No for a school), then let them know.  If you are only at 99.999% then wait until May 1.   5 years ago my kid had made a decision by early Feb.  They knew which school they wanted and we could afford that school.  So they started declining their other choices after accepting where they would attend.  No clue if that opened a spot for others at any of those schools, but there was no reason for us to wait.  In return their 2nd choice school happily refunded the housing deposit we had put down (it's a smaller school but they assigned housing based on when you deposited housing, so we had paid the $500 just in case knowing we could get it back).

So Feb 1 is well before RD for majority of schools.  So our action may have allowed another kid to get an acceptance in RD.  Maybe not, but it didn't hurt us and could only help the school and other students, so why not[/quote]

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