Considering Deposit at Two Universities Due to the Unknown - Anyone Else?

[SJ2727]

@collegeisago

@J2727. I am not assuming anything although easy to do during these times. As I said, many schools are doing this. OSU was an example, South Carolina is another. Flagships who accept a decent amount of OOS students and internationals are doing this. It is early April and schools are doing whatever it takes to make sure they have enough students in the Fall. It is not a normal year and a lot of these 'borderline" kids will be getting in. Some schools will be scrambling and reaching out to students past the May deadline. For those OOS students out there, I can also see a scenario where a prospective student reaches out to a school in order to negotiate for a better Merit package. This is the year where students will have the upper hand.

You said many, I asked for a source, you answered you knew of one, now you name two and again state “many”. This is not a way to reason an argument, but whatever.

I also don’t think students in general will have the upper hand with endowments falling and overall needs rising. The donut hole is going to get larger imo.

@Bill_Marsh

@evergreen5

Consider the promise made by the student when signing the Common App and the potential consequence they agreed to:

I affirm that I will send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to only one institution; sending multiple deposits (or equivalent) may result in the withdrawal of my admission offers from all institutions. [Note: students may send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to a second institution where they have been admitted from the waitlist, provided that they inform the first institution that they will no longer be enrolling.]

https://www.commonapp.org/application-affirmations

A few years ago (2015?), UC Irvine had 800 more students accept admissions offers than expected. UCI didn’t have room to accommodate them. In late June (!) 500 of those students received letters rescinding their admissions offers.

Ethical? Or just a case of doing what had to be done under extraordinary circumstances? Somehow the University of California found a way to justify that despite what appeared to be an ironclad offer of admission.

It’s a 2-way street.

Agree on that one for sure.