College Deposit Pressure

arabrab
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:13:53 +0000

D put her (tiny) deposit down on a an oos public and paid in early April for a non-refundable early May orientation weekend (and bought airfare) even though she wasn’t sure if that was really going to be her school choice. There were a couple of other orientation date options, but they didn’t fit into her schedule, conflicting either with Prom, AP exams, or graduation. This very large public university lets honors college students register early, so the timing is constrained given that they’ve then got to get a bijillion regular freshmen registered. But I didn’t feel pressured by the school, and if we’d really wanted to postpone the decision until May 1 we easily could have.