ED II -- Response from competing college

jbusc
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:54:40 +0000

FERPA is very restrictive regarding release of data of any sort. In that vein, (I believe, since I am not a lawyer) I can request to my university to keep all of my data private, to the extent that the school can not even confirm to a 3rd party that I attend or that I even have a database record of any sort. Moreover, they have to give a reasonable amount of time for me to request this prior to releasing any public data.

Now whether this applies to admissions I dunno. My guess is that so many universities do ED/EA that their lawyers would have raised red flags at some point if there were a problem (since admissions offices tend to be very legal-conscious, for good reason)