<p>At first I wasn’t sure if this was real. But if it this is, I’m glad you posted in here then…</p>
<p>The results could have been disastrous if you didn’t</p>
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<p>What makes you assume he may be a home schooler? Aren’t there any confused teens in public school?</p>
<p>^Sure there are; but as a home schooler, there may be equally confused GC’s (his/her parents) @austinmshauri</p>
<p>am not home schooled…am an international prospective…</p>
<p>@austinmshauri I said homeschool cos then there is no professional guidance counselor. Reading other threads on cc though, it seems not all schools require a GC to sign off on ED, or it’s a new thing</p>
<p>Since you’re international, here’s the basics:
1° You can apply to as many EA (early ACTION) and Rolling admission (application is posted on university website during the Summer, you can apply anytime, but you should apply by December 1st for best chances) as you wish. You hear the decision fast and you can choose the one you like best in May, or earlier (like: December) if you want to secure good housing.
2° You can tell ONE school “I love you and only you and I want to spend the next four years of my life with you”. That’s ED: early decision. You can only choose ONE school. If they say no, you can choose another ED school, and only one, in a process known as EDII or ED2. When you apply ED, it means that if they say yes, you’ll go. So, if you applied to any other school RD or rolling admissions or EA, you have to say “no” to these schools, even if the ED school offered less money than the rolling admission or EA schools.
HOWEVER if the ED school did not offer sufficient money for you to attend, that’s the ONLY reason you can turn down your ED agreement. Before you do that, though, you need to email the college and tell them their financial aid package is not sufficient for you to accept your admission. If they don’t change their financial aid offer, then you can turn them down, but you won’t be going to that school, period. Finished.
3° If you submitted three ED applications, email two of the schools (the ones you like less) and ask to be switched to RD. Say “Good morning, I must apologize, but due to my parents’ financial concerns, I’d like to switch my application to RD. Thank you.”
4° Don’t submit any ED2 application until you’ve received an answer from your ED1 school. </p>
<p>@MYOs1634 thank you very much for the advice</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, what 3 did u apply ED to?</p>
<p>i have only done one.</p>
<p>Well that is good to hear. College applications must be honest and ED agreements must be signed in good faith and adhered to. No one wants a student who thinks that it is no big deal to break agreements or have dishonesty in the process. This is considered serious in the U.S. They do not want students who might practice academic dishonesty or do questionable things to get advantages.</p>
<p>Not all schools have eDI or EDII.</p>
<p>it has happened. Especially with international students. Counselors just sign off without reading what the agreement says. Can happen at busy schools with disorganized counseling staff, especially when a student is shutltled or using two GCs. My son’s GC was switched right before the process at his high school years ago, and I had to be right on top of things and I still suspect some thing were duplicates and some things missed. </p>
<p>The problem with multiple ED apps is that if you are discovered, you can be just washed out of going to any of those schools. ED is one thing that schools do share info with other schools. Those schools that subscibe to a common list get the info on who was accepted ED, and if there duplicates and breaks in the ED agreement, you can be out in the cold, and your school sanctioned to boot. </p>
<p>Yes, some students have gotten away with it People get away with all sorts of things like that, cheating, stealing, assault, murder, every day. You draw your own lines as to where you want to take your risks AT your age, starting the process out with breaking ED rules is not an auspicious one </p>
<p>Only one ED app out at a time. If you are deferred or rejected from your ED school, you can apply ED2 to another school. But not until that ED1 status has been resolved by the school. Some schools with ED 2 will permit RD apps to be converted to ED2 as long as it’s done before the ED2 deadline. </p>
<p>If you are cheating even before you get to college, it does not bode well for an honest academic future. Even considering gaming the system and seeing what you can get away with suggests you are bad news. And being an international student is no excuse. You already show that you know the rules. You just want to know how to get around them and whether or not getting caught is worth chancing. Students from certain countries are known to cheat on the admissions tests. Not all but many from certain countries and US students know which countries those are. Once they get here they (those that already cheated to get here) cheat on papers, cheat on tests and cluster with other students from their country. They bunch together and speak their native language-rather than adopting the language of the university. It degrades the college experience for US students. Yes, that is very not PC of me to say but it is true. Those international students who I am referring to have lessoned the college experience for those from the US and from other countries where students adhere to the rules and come to learn at a US college rather than coming to a US college because they can’t get into one in their native country. If that is the game, please spare the US schools. Take a look at England. I hear they have some really great universities. Please for our sake, choose those!</p>