I talked to my friend to clarify what happened. It turns out he actually did apply to both Huntsman and Northwestern ED (and got accepted to Northwestern) 
. He also lied about being the JV captain of soccer on Common App. You think he’ll get caught???
@ibanker38 Did your friend say what he had planned to do had he been accepted to both schools ED? I’m just very curious how he would have found his way out of one binding agreement.
i heard you could get out of a binding agreement if you can’t financially afford the package they give you. He probably planned to lie about not being able to afford it.
GCs have to send transcripts, SSRs, and rec letters, so if they don’t know where their students are applying, they’re incompetent.
Or overworked because they are assigned hundreds of students and have to deal with numerous other high school student issues besides college applications.
@ucbalumnus - that’s also possible (and unfortunate), but they certainly should have a “way of knowing” where kids are applying.
Did your friend forge signatures? Did the counselor actually sign two ED forms? The counselor should be fired if so.
No idea. But once again I doubt the counselor did anything shady bc Im from a school district with a good reputation
This sounds really fishy, since the Common App is not set up to allow two ED applications to be generated from within their system. The student or the counselor would have had to do a withdraw/bypass for the second ED application to even be submitted, or performed some sort of application over-ride, which makes this deliberate flouting of the rules more concerning…
Perhaps this was a circumstance of both Common App. ED, and a Coalition app. ED?
I know U Penn only accepts Common App, while Northwestern accepts both.
Such a stupid thing to lie about, since it would have absolutely NO influence on his acceptance. Schools want to see that you were involved but don’t know (or care) if you were the superstar or never saw playing time.
Unless he applied ED and Ea, or ed Nwth/RD Huntsman? Is that possible for these two schools?
I am so tired reading about students and parents trying to circumvent admissions or FA policies.
With the number of postings by kids who say they’ve done this, some students/ families have found a way to designate two schools as ED through Comm App. Some of the school permit you to change your application on the portal. I don’t know if this is just from RD to EA and EA to RD because my son didn’t apply anywhere ED. The schools pester to change the app to ED, then they persist with the emails about how kids can still change their app to ED2. Maybe the binding agreements are not being signed when this is done after the initial submission?
I doubt this issue would become a bigger threat in the future, though. I personally do not know many other people who would risk their admission chances to TWO of their dream schools.
Well, since the information you have suggests that a student did indeed violate the ED policy, the question is: what should you do about it? I would start with your own parents, and start it as a hypothetical. Such, as, if I found out that person X in my school applied early to both Penn and Brown, what should I do? Alternatively (or subsequently), you could pose that same hypo to anyone in the school guidance department (it’s not an accusation, it’s a question). Alternatively, you could let it go—this person is a friend, after all. Finally, it’s still possible that your facts are not quite correct (or that your friend has not been quite honest with you (someone who has admitted to not following ED policies may not be all too honest about other things as well)).
I’ve decided to just let it go. There’s still a possibility its just a big misunderstanding. Also, he’s already been accepted to Northwestern. He can’t apply to any other colleges. In other words, if I told on him, he would get royally screwed over.