Just curious- did all those acceptances and scholarships come in before the ED2 acceptance?
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I think so. Or within a few days - it took him a few days to get around to pulling all his apps with his counselor as we were travelling so I cant remember on UW and SLO specifically
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I wondered this too. I don’t know about all of them but cal poly slo came out weeks (a month maybe?) after ED2 results.
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Just a note on acceptances and ED decisions. 3 years ago, our son was accepted ED2 to a great school. He did have a number of EA acceptances and tried to withdraw the rest of his applications immediately of course. For a couple of schools, even though he wrote to admissions, he still got a decision back (acceptances). We were really surprised when those showed up! And were in touch with the schools a second time.
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This happened to my D24 for one school as well after her ED1 acceptance. (It was for BU - and she didn’t actually get accepted but she got offered Guaranteed Sophomore Transfer after unsuccessfully trying to withdraw her BU app). She also got in to two other schools later because 1.) she couldn’t figure out how to log in to one portal to pull it (JMU - I finally figured out how to log in for her after someone on this site asked if anyone knew how to) and 2.) USD (literally could not figure out how to withdraw - we both searched and searched on the portal). But she did successfully pull her 9 other outstanding apps.
I think people on this board like to try to play “gotcha” with withdrawals after ED. I agree that kids who are accepted ED or ED2 should and are required to pull acceptances after. I think it’s super silly for parents on this anonymous board to try to discern whether some stranger’s kid did or did not do so.
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Exact same thing happened to us with two schools. With one, the EA acceptance came shortly after the ED acceptance because we couldn’t figure out how to withdraw, but then S was able to turn it down. With the other, we still haven’t figured it out, and there doesn’t really seem to be a way to turn down the offer in the portal other than by just not accepting and sending the deposit (but it doesn’t really matter, because it was an auto-admit at a school with a 90+% acceptance rate, so S is not taking someone else’s spot).
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Still trying to figure out how to withdraw/decline from Pitt over here, after S26 was accepted ED2 to Wesleyan. Most places made it easy and S26 did so promptly.
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I don’t mean this as rude, but can’t a student just call an admission office and ask to withdraw an app? Do they say that they can’t help you when you call? Or email admissions the officer for your region? I do know if you email a “one stop” you get the canned ai answer, but a human has always followed up in either minutes or at the longest, a week.
It just seems disrespectful to those of us families who cannot afford to ED anywhere.
If your S can’t find a way to do it then have him email his admission officer to withdraw the application. That way the withdrawal is documented.
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Thanks! I asked S26 about this and it turns out he already emailed and forgot he didn’t tell me.
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Mine didn’t ED, but she did decide to commit and put down a deposit, so she withdrew the rest of her apps. She said there were a couple that didn’t make it obvious in the portal how to do that, so she had to email – Pitt may have been one them. I think WPI, too.
Not rude just maybe not the understanding that some actually do this and still th applications are not withdrawn.
In my D24 case
- For BU sh turned in the application th same day she ended up getting ED1 acceptance elsewhere. She didn’t yet have a portal so she emailed admissions and figured it was done. It was not. She never sent in the required first semester grades because she had withdrawn her application by email. And still she was accepted to the guaranteed sophomore transfer program she didn’t know existed.
- For JMU she emailed admissions and did not hear back and apparently the application was not withdrawn. We could not figure out how to login. IIRC there was some weird format for the username that we didn’t know. I only learned how to login when others on this site were reporting the same issue and someone replied to tell people the syntax for the login ID, which was not email like all the other portals. In any case when we reached out to admissions by email to withdraw they didn’t reply.
- For USD she didn’t try anything beyond that we both searched all over the portal looking for where to withdraw. We could have/maybe should have called but didn’t.
My D26 has been emailing admissions recently for a school to which she has been accepted, trying to ask a question. Also left a voicemail. No one has gotten back to her.
Admissions offices are not always very responsive during this time.
Kids who get in ED should absolutely withdraw other apps. No argument there. I just think it’s silly that some people on here try to “catch” others who they think might not have done so. It’s anonymous. No one knows who did the right thing and who didn’t. Or what effort they may have put in to try to get it done.
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I appreciate the reply. Since none of my kids ED’ed, I was honestly curious if an applicant called via voice call, and asked to withdraw an application, if they would be ignored. So now we have evidence that the answer is, sometimes yes. On some other forums I have been noticing more and more results where a parent will announce all the acceptances, the ED acceptance, and then some recent acceptances after ED, so either those posts are not 100% true, or they did ask to withdraw, but were given a result anyway.
I guess a gray area, is if they are waiting on a financial aid appeal, are they obligated to pull applications if no aid at all is given and a certain amount was anticipated? That would also make sense.
I understand much better now, so I thank you you for replying.
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Good point! It is my understanding that you are not required to withdraw other apps after ED acceptance if the ED financial aid offer is unaffordable (presumably less aid offered than projected by NPC) or if financial aid offer has not yet come out. But I’m not totally sure of that.
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This is correct.
Add my D to the list of students who received decisions even after properly withdrawing her app in the way the schools required.
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I only know what the steps where for my D26s ED1 process- so I am sure there are differences.
But in her acceptance letter it states that other applications/acceptances are to be withdrawn after the enrollment deposit is paid. And the date given for the deposit payment deadline was almost 6 weeks after she received the acceptance.
The financial aid documents did not even come in until 2 weeks after the acceptance.
So there is plenty of time to review aid and finances and appeal if needed and clarify anything that is needed…
My D26 accepted and paid the deposit before we got the financial aid documents (not going to receive any aid and the merit was already more than expected) because this was a no brainer for us- but even with following the set guidelines- there is/was absolutely no rush to do this. And if we were in a situation that we needed the time- we would have taken it.
I am going to assume that many ED2 processes would then put those applicants in situations where they will still receive some offers while still within the set timeline of the ED2 agreement?
It is not advised to withdraw other offers or applications until you are fully locked into the ED school with that accept offer button pushed and deposit paid.
Now it is kind of slimy (IMO) if you are using that time as a way to draw out your need to withdraw applications just to see what else is out there and/or what acceptances you may get- but there is no way for anyone to know if that is what is being done.
Technically my D26 has two acceptances still floating out there.
One she withdrew (had already received the acceptance) and they wrote back saying they are instead moving her to ‘deferred’ status and that she is welcome for Fall of '27 if there are any changes over this next year.
And the other- just can’t figure out how to withdraw. Emailed 2x so I consider that her doing her due diligence in the spirit of the ED agreement. Not going to waste more time on that one 
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I think the biggest take- don’t play games- make sure your actions are in the spirit of the ED agreement (during the application and after acceptance) and all will work out. These schools are not out there to catch you out- assuming you are working in good faith!
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I would just emphasize the qualifier that it has to be unexpectedly unaffordable. Like if they offer something consistent with the NPC, but you have decided on reflection you would prefer to pay less, well, that’s not really an ethical reason to violate your ED agreement.
On the other hand, sometimes there is actually a material change in your financial circumstances since you applied ED. At that point your first step should be trying to work in good faith with their aid office. But if you can’t work something out, then they should release you.
So that would be another example of a scenario in which it would be ethical to keep open your other applications (while you are working to adjust your aid or alternatively get released).
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I think this is very college dependent. D19 got her financial package with her offer and had as I recall a week to officially enroll /pay deposit at NYU. I assume there would have been some grace period if appealing aid.
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I feel like the 6 weeks was over kill for time given (I have seen at least a few with this timeline- I think that the school that started this convo had an ED2 deposit date in March- not sure the timeline from acceptance to deadline though)) but 1 week seems like an extreme timeline on the other side of the spectrum!!!