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hummingbird
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Posted: Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 12:20 am |
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My son was accepted by U of Missouri. Online, it has a link to click on to Accept Admission, Decline Admission, and another link to go to Pay Enrollment Fee.
He received the "fat envelope" yesterday, and in it, it said that the $150 enrollment fee is to secure your place in class and is refundable until May 1.
Do we pay the enrollment fee now, but wait to Accept/Decline Admission until he has made a final decision (probably March or April)? Or should we not pay the enrollment fee until he has made a decision? Will they give up his spot if we don't?
So many questions. 
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DesperateDad
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Posted: Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 12:28 am |
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| cant' speak for Missouri, but I would guess that you have until May 1 to submit the deposit. However, one consideration is on-campus housing. At some big publics, housing can be first-come, first-served so might make sense to send in the housing deposit early, even if it is non-refundable.
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hummingbird
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Posted: Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 01:49 am |
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| They said the housing info would be available in February. We'll jump on the housing contract and fee right away, at that time. So I'm kind of thinking there's no hurry or incentive to submit the enrollment fee right now. Maybe I'll give them a call tomorrow. I have a couple more questions anyway.
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 05:44 am |
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hummingbird wrote: Do we pay the enrollment fee now, but wait to Accept/Decline Admission until he has made a final decision (probably March or April)? Or should we not pay the enrollment fee until he has made a decision? Will they give up his spot if we don't?
So many questions.
Hummingbird,
The enrollment fee is the "intent to enroll" and it is a promise to attend. Only submit it now if your son has definitely decided to attend. It is the same as saying "yes, I'm coming" and if he later decides to go elsewhere and submits another enrollment fee without withdrawing the first one, colleges have the right to rescind offers of admission (it's called double depositing). A few schools do share this information as well, so there is also always a slight chance that declaring an intent to enroll at one school could affect his chances of admission elsewhere. Additionally, by sending in the enrollment fee now, your son will be "holding" that place from another student who is waiting to be admitted.
Unless you apply early decision, ALL colleges must comply with May 1st as the official candidate's reply date, and you don't have to send in the enrollment form until then, or until your son makes a final decision if it occurs before May 1. This is true even if you are offered a merit scholarship that the school says you must accept by a date before May 1. By NACAC Standards of Good Practice, colleges must give students the option of asking for an extension of any scholarship deadline until May 1. (Again, the exception is Early Decision - you have to comply with whatever deadlines they set for sending in your deposit after you're admitted).
The housing contract and deposit is usually (not always) a separate item from the "intent to enroll" form and fee. Just to be safe, double check, however. I know many schools, including my daughter's, do a sort of averaging of the date they receive the housing form and the date that the intent to enroll form and deposit arrives, and students are then assigned housing in order of that "averaged" date. So, it couldn't hurt to also check to see how housing is assigned at Mizzou.
Last edited on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 05:48 am by CarolynLawrence
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hummingbird
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Posted: Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 01:54 pm |
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Thanks so much, Carolyn, that clears it up! 
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Posted: Thu Jan 24th, 2008 08:23 pm |
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| My daughter was accept at Suny Binghamton and we received notice today that the housing and tuition deposit are combined. It says on the form that the $350 is a deposit for enrollment for fall 2008 and a housing deposit. We are still waiting to hear from some other schools although this school is one of her top choices. Do you think that this deposit would be binding and she would have to go or would we just loose the deposit if she changes her mind. I heard that last year there was a housing shortage. I appreciate any thoughts on this matter since most likely this is where she will go to college but we would like to hear from the other schools before we definitely commit. thanks
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Fri Jan 25th, 2008 03:04 am |
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Technically, once you tell a college you plan to enroll and send a deposit, you are supposed to withdraw your other applications. That's the party line that any college will tell you.
Unfortunately, a growing number of schools are combining the housing and enrollment deposit and then telling admitted students that they'll risk not getting housing.
I would call SUNY Bing and ask if it would be possible to separate out the two, and whether the deposit would be fully refundable if she changes her mind (Housing deposits are often refundable, Enrollment deposits usually arent). If she's applied to other SUNY schools, it wouldn't hurt to ask if there is a list shared among SUNY schools of students who have agreed to attend individual campuses. If so, I would be cautious.
If your daughter decides to send the deposit, it is very important that she let SUNY Bing know that she will not be attending BEFORE sending an enrollment deposit to a second school.
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hummingbird
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Posted: Sun Feb 10th, 2008 09:40 pm |
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| (oops - never mind!) Last edited on Wed Feb 13th, 2008 02:10 pm by hummingbird
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