Do I REALLY need to withdraw my other applications?

CCSurfer
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:04:11 +0000

Even though colleges supposedly don’t compare applicants to other students from their own high schools but to the applicant pool in general, you keeping your applications in play seems likely to hurt RD applicants from your own school. And not just one other applicant; you could be accepted at several of your RD schools, taking places away from several students who would otherwise have been accepted. I can understand wanting to satisfy your curiousity, but do you really want to watch your classmates receive rejections that might have been acceptances had you honored the terms of your contract and withdrawn your application?