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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did this student recently get off the waitlist at the second college? I thought colleges understood that this happens and don’t hold it against the student. Though I suppose Princeton might be angry if you backed out to go to Yale, for example. But I think Boston College would understand if you backed out for Harvard or even Amherst, say.[/quote]

Not if you committed to go to the first school ED.  That’s the whole point of ED.  It’s a commitment and they make you sign a statement saying as much.  [/quote]

And if admitted ED, the student should have pulled all other apps and therefore not even been on a waitlist elsewhere (if not immediately, then as soon as the FA package came through).  Plus, if the waitlist school was the "dream school" why did OPs kid ED somewhere else?  If your top choice doesn't have ED, or you get waitlisted/deferred EDI, you don't EDII somewhere else unless you're willing to go to that school and say goodbye to the "dream".[/quote]

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