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Originally Posted by littleowl33
It may depend on the school... I've worked in the admissions office for a few years and while they do expect the "summer melt" (losing 30-80 incoming freshmen over the summer due to various reasons), if they found out that the student had deposited at another school, I think they would almost certainly rescind admission and keep the deposit. Putting a deposit on a school is like signing a legally binding contract to attend, so doing that at two schools is not a very good idea. The most comparable situation I can think of is when we advise a student on the waitlist to deposit at another school (and NOT depend on getting off the waitlist!). If it turns out we are able to accept him/her later in the summer, he/she just has to forfeit the other school's deposit and deposit with us. But there shouldn't be two deposits down at the same time at any point.
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I did this. Put deposits down at both Pepperdine and Univ. of Washington because although I really wanted Pepperdine, we were still trying to figure out the financial stuff. I didn't want to lose my place at U-Dub if we couldn't swing Pepp. And I know I wasn't the only one amongst my friends that did this, in fact I think it's pretty common.
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