Anonymous wrote:My DD withdrew most of her EA apps but she was very curious about one particular very long shot school and could not find an easy way to withdraw her app so she let it ride. She did not get in, nor did she expect to have a snowballs chance in hell so didn't feel like it was a big deal. She did withdraw every other app (there were about 5-6 which were outstanding when she got her ED)

I should add, she didn't plan to accept the other school if she got in, just wanted to know if she would get in.

I figured they were REA/SCEA - so not required to withdraw other applications.

Also, if you are appealing financial aid decision, you are not required to withdraw until appeal is final.

No doubt there are folks who don't withdraw and should but there can be legitimate reasons not to withdraw.

My DD withdrew most of her EA apps but she was very curious about one particular very long shot school and could not find an easy way to withdraw her app so she let it ride. She did not get in, nor did she expect to have a snowballs chance in hell so didn't feel like it was a big deal. She did withdraw every other app (there were about 5-6 which were outstanding when she got her ED)

The schools send back your application fee when you withdraw, right?

Last year, our daughter ED at one school but applied to another rolling and a third EA. She didn't check her email until I suggested her ED school decisions were out. When she did, she also found an acceptance from the rolling school from two weeks earlier She did declined that and withdrew the the third application.

Anonymous wrote:Early decision is not legally binding. Apply early and often.

Do you understand how ED works?

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Anonymous wrote:A girl in my DD's class last year didn't and we informed the school. BTW, I posted about this last year asking if we should inform the school. About half the posters said MYOB and it was a pretty controversial discussion. Not sure why but that's DCUM for you.

Curious to know what happened after you informed the school? How did school respond to you? To the student involved? Was ED rescinded? Student held accountable?

Why on earth did you report her? That is so terrible.

+1

DMV parents are ruthless.

Anonymous wrote:My kid did withdraw other apps when he got in ED. But two things I noticed: 1) there was no easy way to withdraw other apps. I don’t know why more schools don’t have a way in the portal. 2) the ED school said nothing to remind DS to do so. The acceptance letter did not say anything about the ED “rules.”

My ds's admission letter did tell him to withdraw apps from his other schools. He did. And yes, there is no easy/intuitive way to do it for most in the portals. I think he just emailed the AO for some.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, they are in college now. Not citing the other schools, but they kids had their ED acceptances by Christmas, so it was absolutely ED 1.

From PP’s post, it doesn’t sound uncommon.

But if the competitive school was somewhere like Harvard or Stanford - their December acceptance was REA - which both allows a UVA EA application and doesn't require the accepted student to withdraw any RD applications.

OP here. I think this is what happened. Thanks for clarifying that PP.

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Anonymous wrote:A girl in my DD's class last year didn't and we informed the school. BTW, I posted about this last year asking if we should inform the school. About half the posters said MYOB and it was a pretty controversial discussion. Not sure why but that's DCUM for you.

Curious to know what happened after you informed the school? How did school respond to you? To the student involved? Was ED rescinded? Student held accountable?

Why on earth did you report her? That is so terrible.

Anonymous wrote:Early decision is not legally binding. Apply early and often.

It would be impossible to apply to mire than one ed1 school and one ed2 school because a school counselor has to sign the ED agreement.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, they are in college now. Not citing the other schools, but they kids had their ED acceptances by Christmas, so it was absolutely ED 1.

From PP’s post, it doesn’t sound uncommon.

But if the competitive school was somewhere like Harvard or Stanford - their December acceptance was REA - which both allows a UVA EA application and doesn't require the accepted student to withdraw any RD applications.

Right. Which is probably why I responded MYOB to last year's thread on whether to report.

People seem to quick to assume cheating/the worst. Why not assume good intent, and that there is more going on than you know about which explains the circumstances? And lest you think this is innocuous posting on an anonymous board, your kids hear you and absorb your negative assumptions. My own kids have come home multiple times from school and shared some "unfair" way a classmate is gaming the college app system. They never know firsthand - they are repeating speculation phrased as facts by their classmates, who likely in turn are repeating what they hear at home.

Anonymous wrote:A girl in my DD's class last year didn't and we informed the school. BTW, I posted about this last year asking if we should inform the school. About half the posters said MYOB and it was a pretty controversial discussion. Not sure why but that's DCUM for you.

Curious to know what happened after you informed the school? How did school respond to you? To the student involved? Was ED rescinded? Student held accountable?

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they are in college now. Not citing the other schools, but they kids had their ED acceptances by Christmas, so it was absolutely ED 1.

From PP’s post, it doesn’t sound uncommon.

But if the competitive school was somewhere like Harvard or Stanford - their December acceptance was REA - which both allows a UVA EA application and doesn't require the accepted student to withdraw any RD applications.

My kid did withdraw other apps when he got in ED. But two things I noticed: 1) there was no easy way to withdraw other apps. I don’t know why more schools don’t have a way in the portal. 2) the ED school said nothing to remind DS to do so. The acceptance letter did not say anything about the ED “rules.”