<p>I once saw a statistic showing people who were accepted ED had a 97% attendance rate. Putting myself in an admissions director’s shoes, if I accepted 1000 students ED and 30 didn’t attend, I’d be annoyed but I wouldn’t find it disruptive enough to warrant anything beyond over-a-beer grumbling about kids with a character-deficit disorder. Not to mention, I could easily see 1/2 of the 30 having legitimate reasons for not attending–FA didn’t add up or their life circumstances had changed in some fundamental way.</p>
<p>TLDR; it would be an easy thing to do but there’s little payoff beyond assuaging our moral outrage.</p>