NACAC has a current list of covid-19 impacts by college. You can search by a few topics, including deposit date.
https://www.nacacnet.org/news–publications/newsroom/college-admission-status-coronavirus
This is the same organization/website that will post colleges that still have openings after the deposit deadline. Typically that list comes out the first week of May, obviously this year that list will be delayed until early/mid-June (best case).
Why is it unethical to do two or more deposits? As stated, colleges do it with wait lists.
Exactly what do we owe companies where we are planning to hand over almost a quarter of a million dollars in some cases?
I am as ethically sensitive as the next but I am really thinking through the niceties of school/family interactions as they have been traditionally handled.
It’s unethical because you’ve ‘reserved’ two spots and now a student somewhere won’t get one of those. As has been stated, you can put a deposit down, withdraw, and put a deposit down elsewhere if you change your mind.
It is unethical because you cannot attend both colleges. you are also hurting someone on the waiting list. It’s also selfish.
Waitlists are not enrollments.
Double enrolling is unethical and not allowed per NACAC’s (National Association for College Admission Counseling, to which HS GCs usually belong) Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (CEPP). From Section 1. B 1b:
https://www.nacacnet.org/advocacy–ethics/NACAC-Code-of-Ethics/
As I previously stated, your HS will not send final transcripts to 2 schools.
Adding to the above: College AOs also belong to NACAC and uphold the same code of ethics as HS GCs
I may have started the put a deposit down at a may 1 school while waiting to see a June 1 school (post8), one you lose your deposit when you put it down. two college admissions know this happens they refer to it as Summer melt. The biggest argument is you are taking up 2 spots, in reality this year you are not exactly doing that, bc of different admission dates, so lets say state flagship has a may1 dep date and OOS flagship has a June 1 date. You have not seen OOS flagship bc admitted student day was cancelled , if you put down a deposit on may 1 with your instate school, you are taking a spot ( maybe if the yield is to high for the school ,your kids double just became a triple and the class size just went up), if you get a chance to see the OOS flagship before June 1,( no guarantee ) and like it then you release instate school one for OOS school2. You have held a spot for less than 30 days and there is no given that school one will even go into their waitlist. This year is not your regular year so I do not see it as being a matter of ethics but rather of circumstance.
As far as transcripts being sent , yes HS will only send one but that is sent after the school year is over so that is not an issue. I get for many this idea does not ring as fair and I understand it , I presented it as an option. I would say it id different putting 2 deposits down and just not showing up at college number 2.
Also if anyone is going to get technical you are not taking 2 spots, you are buying time, in my example above you release from the one school and commit to school 2. One can argue that you never have 2 commitments at the same time. I am not saying to do this or even if I would I just pointed out with schools having 2 different dates it is doable.
Susquehanna just announced they are extending the commitment date until 6/1.
Indiana University-Bloomington is extending commitment date to 6/1.
One can search for schools that have extended their commitment date here:
https://www.nacacnet.org/news–publications/newsroom/college-admission-status-coronavirus
Catholic University is June 1
Nothing has changed for waitlists. You plunk down a deposit at the top school by commitment date. If you come off a waitlist of interest to you. You accept within the time frame given. Sometimes it’s 48 hours or less. You say yes and are expected to immediately withdraw from school a. Deposit is usually non refundable. Perhaps different this year.
You can always put down a modest housing deposit and you sometimes get a portion refunded. This is prior to final commitment dates of course.
If you have two finalists with different commit dates. You must deposit at school a and risk losing this if you would like school b after some more reflection prior to the later date. There’s no practical reason to double commit. It’s a moot issue.
If you don’t want to risk losing a deposit because you feel school b is speaking to you more. Just deposit to school b now and see how waitlists work out.
Just pretend the dates where the same and make a decision. Is two more weeks going to be any more enlightening than the next four?
And as mentioned. Waitlists are uncharged from any other year.
Penn State moved to June 1st
After 5/1, will the schools not committed by students have the financial aid, scholarship, honor college be cancelled automatically? In other words, we do not have to do inform them 5/1 considering we now only have 5 days toward the deadlines.
if the deposit date is 5/1…that is when you must deposit, unless you call and work something out