<p>Hi guys</p>
<p>I am considering to make an early decision application to JHU, but also, I am applying to schools in UK like Cambridge, Imperial, UCL…</p>
<p>If I DO get into Hopkins via early decision, does this mean I immediately have to withdraw my application to UK schools?</p>
<p>I know that if I get admitted by early decision, I can’t enrol/apply to Unis in US, but I am not sure if the same binding rule applies to Unis outside of US.</p>
<p>Does anyone else have experience on this? Thank you guys!</p>
<p>Oh, look! Johns Hopkins Admissions has a web site:[Johns</a> Hopkins University Office of Undergraduate Admissions: Apply, FAQs, Early Decision](<a href=“http://apply.jhu.edu/apply/faq/earlydecision/]Johns”>http://apply.jhu.edu/apply/faq/earlydecision/).</p>
<p>Seems pretty clear to me, the prohibition is against applying Early Decision to any other university, and the commitment is to enroll at JHU if admitted under Early Decision. You may apply to any other universities you choose under Early Action or Regular Decision rules, and you may apply to foreign universities. (True, you may not apply to Restricted Early Action or Single Choice Early Action colleges if you’re applying ED to JHU, but that’s not because of JHU’s rules. That’s because the ED application at JHU would violate the REA or SCEA college’s Early Action Rules.) </p>
<p>But Hopkins’ ED agreement is an agreement to enroll if admitted. Yes, there’s the well-known out if Hopkins’ financial aid offer doesn’t make the university affordable. I don’t see any loophole about ditching the Early Decision agreement because you’re going to a university in the UK.</p>
<p>Thank you!, but I was bit confused from this post few years ago,
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/1067213-decision-help-oxford-columbia-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/1067213-decision-help-oxford-columbia-2.html</a></p>
<p>and post #23 says “The OP is perfectly within his/her rights to decline an ED offer in favour of Oxford (or any foreign university). There’s nothing Columbia can do about it, and Oxford won’t care.” So I was wondering about the truth…</p>
<p>But you read the rest of that thread, right, nirvana? By and large, there’s one person (who strikes me as completely amoral and self-serving) saying Columbia can’t do anything to you if you go to Oxford instead, and everybody else saying that an ED promise is an ED promise.</p>
<p>It’s true that JHU couldn’t do anything to you if you went to a British university instead. For that matter, JHU couldn’t do anything to you if you went to an American university instead. The enforcement mechanism, such as it is, for ED agreements is a kind of gentlemen’s agreement (if you’ll pardon the gender-specific term) between universities and colleges that they will withdraw their offers of admission if they learn that an accepted applicant has not honored the terms of his or her ED agreement with another institution.</p>
<p>So if you applied ED to JHU, but then went to Cambridge instead, Hopkins couldn’t really do anything to you, and Cambridge probably wouldn’t. But Hopkins could blackball your high school, and universities have been known to do it. They might well say, “The guidance staff at this high school allows students to make ED agreements that they do not intend to honor,” and stop accepting applicants from your school under ED. (Or perhaps at all.) So you could very well be screwing everyone for several classes behind you at your school.</p>
<p>You would also be reneging on a commitment that you’d made. That Dionysus character in the old thread you linked to seems to be sufficiently free of scruples or conscience that this wouldn’t bother him. I couldn’t do it, because it’s fundamentally dishonest. Whether you could do it is ultimately a question for you to decide.</p>
<p>aha okay! I had no intention of violating ED rule, but I was wondering if it’s still binding for schools outside US, and I actually did see people violating ED to attend other unis in foreign country before so I was wondering. Now I am sure about ED rule, I will consider if I should make ED application or not and make up my mind where I truly want to go. And thank you so much!</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>