<p>You people are scaring me.I feel like I blew my future by prematurely signing a STUPID ED contract.I feel trapped.That’s why I am shopping for answers I want.</p>
<p>“You people are scaring me.I feel like I blew my future by prematurely signing a STUPID ED contract.I feel trapped.That’s why I am shopping for answers I want.”</p>
<p>You could go to the LAC and get a wonderful education which will send you on the way to a very bright future. Where are your parents in all of this?</p>
<p>Did you apply to Harvard after you signed the ED contract?</p>
<p>And you didn’t blow your future. You got into a fine LAC, one that really wants you, and one that you apparently liked a great deal. Most people don’t go to Harvard, you know, and manage to have great futures!</p>
<p>Why did you not withdraw your RD application to Harvard once you were accepted ED to the LAC?</p>
<p>THAT is the critical question. And, you did not “blow your future.”</p>
<p>My parents do not know a thing about college.I am making all those decisions by myself.
Owlice, yeah.</p>
<p>triple cross-posts and all saying the same thing. Isn’t that interesting?</p>
<p>Do your parents know anything about contracts?</p>
<p>Do you have a guidance counselor?</p>
<p>BTW, it is not at all too late to do the right thing.</p>
<p>Withdraw the application to Harvard.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^That’s is not going to happen.I,at the very least,want to know their decision.</p>
<p>cognito, I’m sorry you are not getting the answers you want. It’s clear you aren’t going to. (Annoying, isn’t it?!!) </p>
<p>You haven’t blown your future. You really WILL be okay. I know Harvard is very enticing, but the LAC clearly is, too, or you wouldn’t have applied.</p>
<p>jmmom is right – pull your Harvard app. Please talk to your GC.</p>
<p>The issue for the colleges is this: if they allow kids to apply ED, and then they allow kids to withdraw from ED with no penalties, ALL kids would apply ED to all their top picks, and ED would really be no different from RD. To prevent that from happening, the colleges HAVE to uphold consequences for breaking the rules. My D would have applied ED to four or five schools if she knew there would be no consequence to breaking the agreement. </p>
<p>So I think that the colleges are definitely under some pressure to do the things they’ve said they’ll do, namely, withdraw your acceptance.</p>
<p>You are going to risk having the LAC pull their offer? If Harvard doesn’t accept you, then what? If it does and then pulls its offer because you reneged on ED, then what?</p>
<p>Are you prepared to live with the consequences should that happen?</p>
<p>Personally I would prefer if colleges eliminated ED altogether and replaced it by EA.</p>
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Very disappointing.
Many have. So you should not have applied to those which, instead, use ED.</p>
<p>If there is any justice in this world, you will not be accepted to Harvard. Nor any of the other schools you applied to RD, which you shouldn’t have done.</p>
<p>If justice is not merciful, you will lose your acceptance to the LAC.</p>
<p>Owlice there are also other schools on the table.I am just going to wait and see what they decide.</p>
<p>“Owlice there are also other schools on the table.I am just going to wait and see what they decide.”</p>
<p>If you can live with the risk of sitting home in the fall, then continue on the path. If you can’t, then withdraw immediately.</p>
<p>cogito, there are probably applicants to Harvard on this board who at this moment are trying to figure out who you are. Some even believe that Admissions reps read these boards. Could be from Harvard, the “other schools on the table” (all of which you should have withdrawn from or never applied to), the ED LAC.</p>
<p>If such folks are drawn to this thread, well… You would be surprised at the sleuthing abilities of some computer-wise individuals.</p>
<p>cogito, there shouldn’t be ANY other schools on the table. You have a contract! Do you understand that?</p>
<p>I don’t understand why some people consider ED as a divine thing.It is just a marketing ploy used by colleges to increase their yield.If they cared about students they wouldn’t lock teenagers into some annoying commitment.Harvard and Princeton have eliminated ED.I wish all colleges follow their footsteps.</p>
<p>If you disdain it so, why did you apply ED?</p>
<p>Not every school has the yield of Harvard or Princeton (or Stanford or… or…).</p>
<p>It is those schools which are a step down to whom ED is an important tool - to build a class, to plan their enrollment.</p>
<p>I’m not a big fan of it either. But I am much less of a fan of someone who is so blithely willing to violate a contract, shows so little ethics. If those aspects of your personality show through in your application, you probably won’t have to worry about the dual acceptances.</p>