<p>There is no way it can be binding unless they TELL you it is. Read the acceptance/agreement. </p>
<p>If you don’t have it yet, and are speculating…then know that of COURSE things happen. What if the child gets ill? What if they simply change their mind and don’t want to attend college at all? </p>
<p>Colleges are experiencing melt and working waitlists into the early summer. My own neice had already accepted an offer at Michigan State when Columbia came calling her off the waitlist in the summer and you can bet she cancelled Michigan (sorry Michigan, didn’t mean for that to sound so harsh). Obviously, you need to actually make a decision if you have more than one offer. But…“things” (as above) do happen to sometimes change that decision.</p>