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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s totally fine. Seriously, calm down. This is a non-issue. He just needs to go into the portal where he was accepted and decline the admittance. He doesn’t need to talk to his counselor or anyone else. Just take care of it.

There is no secret network where schools are communicating with each other to say who still an application in place after getting an ED admittance. [/quote]

This but it really sucks when people do this. Even if there were 19 other apps, this is a simple task and should have been done. [/quote]

It doesn’t really suck.  It’s a small mistake that doesn’t hurt anyone.  This admissions and decline will either be part of the decline that the institution expected, or it will mean that the spot goes to someone on the waitlist who really wanted it.[/quote]

Actually it Does hurt at least one person. That school offered spots to X kids in RD.  Had he pulled his application, 1 additional kid would have gotten an acceptance that did NOT get accepted.  Sure the school will be fine and will pull from the WL if needed, but fact is ONE additional kid 99.999999% would have gotten an acceptance had he pulled his application. 
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One kid who also has twenty apps in and is every bit as unlikely to take the offer. This is not a school that was yield protecting, or following up in any way, and they probably did make it cumbersome to withdrawal the app.[/quote]

Yield protections doesn't matter in this case.  It's simple math.  U of Y says "we need to accept Z students in RD to meet our yield" so they offer acceptance to Z students.  Had the withdrawal gone trhu/been processed, another kid would obviously have gotten an Acceptance in RD.

I get some make it cumbersome.  So you try the portal, email admissions/Admin rep, call and talk to someone or leave a message.  Do all of those (or one if you get confirmation) and then you are done.  It will take less than 15 mins to do all 3 or everything except the portal (If it's too confusing/not possible). If a kid is applying to college, they should be able to do all of this. 
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