I thought there was some anti-trust ruling in the last couple years that schools could no longer arbitrarily treat May 1 as a final commit date or maybe it was that schools could keep competing after this date to flip students. How does this work exactly?

Lindagaf · April 29, 2022, 4:12pm

The colleges want students to commit by May 1.

Jane Smith commits to College B. College A wants Jane Smith at their school though. They come along after May 1 and offer Jane a lot of money to come to College A. Jane is free to go to College A if she wants to, and she will probably lose her deposit at College B. College A has done nothing wrong.

I haven’t yet heard of this happening, but I am sure it has. Perhaps some athletes have experienced this?

I thought there was some anti-trust ruling in the last couple years that schools could no longer arbitrarily treat May 1 as a final commit date or maybe it was that schools could keep competing after this date to flip students. How does this work exactly?

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