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ok, so when you are admitted off a waitlist---must you withdraw from all other waitlists if you chose to accept?

why don't you email the school and ask

Depends on the school prolly. Just ask.

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well the question is more hypothetical then actually pertaining to my situation--I have seem people on this forum claim that others should send out withdrawal offers once they got admitted....and I was confused as to whether it was common to do this?

I have had schools tell me that when I accept their offer, I must withdraw from other schools, but others have asked what other schools I have deposits on when I sent in the first deposit.

common sense tells me that if you accept the waitlist offer you're bound to the school. isn't that why they let you know that you're in and then give you X number of days to tell them if you're going to attend?

paulinaporizkova wrote:common sense tells me that if you accept the waitlist offer you're bound to the school. isn't that why they let you know that you're in and then give you X number of days to tell them if you're going to attend?

Yep, that is what it seemed like to me----but noone has ever specified , nor do they make it clear when they accept you so I found it interesting.
It is quite a dillema if that is the case---since you have to pick a school over a potential offer from a much higher school......seems very Las Vegas to me (well, not technically a correct analogy)

Anyway, thank you for entertaining my musings

No way. I haven't seen anything to lead me to think that it's binding in the way that an ED acceptance would be. I would assume that it's the same as if you're accepted RD: you send them your deposit which you forfeit if you later withdraw. It's certainly kosher to have multiple deposits down, so I don't see why being accepted off the WL should make any difference...

If I'm wrong please tell me soon so I don't end up like that multiple ED guy from last year

bigjinjapan wrote:No way. I haven't seen anything to lead me to think that it's binding in the way that an ED acceptance would be. I would assume that it's the same as if you're accepted RD: you send them your deposit which you forfeit if you later withdraw. It's certainly kosher to have multiple deposits down, so I don't see why being accepted off the WL should make any difference...

If I'm wrong please tell me soon so I don't end up like that multiple ED guy from last year

I am pretty sure what you said above is correct (at least that is how I understand it as well).

bigjinjapan wrote:No way. I haven't seen anything to lead me to think that it's binding in the way that an ED acceptance would be. I would assume that it's the same as if you're accepted RD: you send them your deposit which you forfeit if you later withdraw. It's certainly kosher to have multiple deposits down, so I don't see why being accepted off the WL should make any difference...

If I'm wrong please tell me soon so I don't end up like that multiple ED guy from last year

It's kosher to have multiple first deposits down, but not second deposits. They won't rescind your acceptances, but you will get angry emails from the schools.

However, I think you only have to withdraw from other WLs if the school specifically instructs you that you must as a condition for accepting their offer of admission.

Magnolia wrote:

bigjinjapan wrote:No way. I haven't seen anything to lead me to think that it's binding in the way that an ED acceptance would be. I would assume that it's the same as if you're accepted RD: you send them your deposit which you forfeit if you later withdraw. It's certainly kosher to have multiple deposits down, so I don't see why being accepted off the WL should make any difference...

If I'm wrong please tell me soon so I don't end up like that multiple ED guy from last year

It's kosher to have multiple first deposits down, but not second deposits. They won't rescind your acceptances, but you will get angry emails from the schools.

However, I think you only have to withdraw from other WLs if the school specifically instructs you that you must as a condition for accepting their offer of admission.

Sounds like it must vary by school a bit. I'd be curious to know what schools actually have this sort of stipulation. Pretty sure Vandy didn't have anything in the response form about it, but maybe I should double-check...

So the 2nd deposit does seem to vary by school in its binding commitment....I don't want to ask the schools I was accepted to whether their 2nd deposit is binding (I know their 1st isn't). Is there a way of knowing whether 2nd deposits are binding or not *without* having to email the schools in question? I'm not in the situation of accepting a waitlist offer though, I'm talking 2nd deposits at schools that just accepted you without any waitlist procedure.

Metaread wrote:So the 2nd deposit does seem to vary by school in its binding commitment....I don't want to ask the schools I was accepted to whether their 2nd deposit is binding (I know their 1st isn't). Is there a way of knowing whether 2nd deposits are binding or not *without* having to email the schools in question? I'm not in the situation of accepting a waitlist offer though, I'm talking 2nd deposits at schools that just accepted you without any waitlist procedure.

Curious why you don't want to ask here. I don't think they're going to withdraw their offer of admission because you're waiting out a few WLs.

In any case, I don't think even 2nd deposits are 'binding' in the sense that you have to withdraw from your WLs. But I do think you may run into trouble if you try to make 2nd deposits at more than one school, at least as far as scholarship and stuff goes. My WUSTL scholly offer stipulated that 'your scholarship may be put at risk if you maintain deposits at schools other than WUSTL after the 2nd deposit deadline.'

I'm afraid they'll blacklist me somehow for asking it, there may not be any visible consequences, but I haven't yet set foot on the school and met the people and admin there, so I have no real idea how they'd react to this. Maybe it's just me being paranoid, but law schools are fairly jealous of each other, it seems.

http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissi ... power.aspx

After April 1, except under binding early decision plans, every accepted applicant should be free to accept a new offer from a law school even though a scholarship has been accepted, a deposit has been paid, or a committment [sic] has been made to another school. To provide applicants with an uncoerced choice among various law schools, no excessive nonrefundable deposit should be required solely to maintain a place in the class. (Emphasis added.)

Thanks for the clarification! It makes me less paranoid.