How Strictly is Early Admission Enforced

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  eRetaker Free Trial Member

  January 2019 2043 karma

  It's binding, so if u want Yale, you will have to withdraw your NYU admission and reapply next cycle.

  http://www.law.nyu.edu/jdadmissions/applicants/applications
• _oshun1_ Alum Member

  January 2019 3652 karma

  Yale sends that email out to a lot of people. I got it too and my stats are barely median for t12 so there’s no reason for Yale to be sending that to me. You can’t even withdraw from NYU, you signed a contract agreeing to attend NYU this cycle.

  Congrats on the acceptance!
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  _oshun1_ Alum Member

  January 2019 edited January 2019 3652 karma

  Update after reading that above link I guess the only consequence of not withdrawing your apps from other schools/applying to other schools is “Failure to honor these commitments will result in New York University School of Law revoking its offer of admission.”
  So if you don’t want to attend NYU then yeah apply to Yale.
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  eRetaker Free Trial Member

  January 2019 2043 karma

  Agreed with @oshun1 , Yale is a long long shot for anyone and the emails are most likely marketing. You are already in a very good position with NYU so definitely not worth imho to lose it for a minuscule shot at Yale. Lastly, there must have been a reason you applied to NYU ED in the first place.
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  Leah M B Alum Member ⭐

  January 2019 8392 karma

  Yeah, what @oshun1 said. Except also, this line is in the ED contract:

  "Responding to the request of some peer law schools, New
  York University School of Law will provide these schools with the
  names of all applicants accepted to the New York University
  School of Law under our binding Early Decision program."

  An unknown number of other schools have been notified of your acceptance at NYU. In my opinion, it would be not be wise to back out of it and apply elsewhere. Even if NYU can't enforce any other repercussions (besides withdrawing your offer of admission, which they certainly will), I have serious doubt another law school that knows you backed out of a binding offer will be chomping at the bit to accept you. It's a bad look.

  And yeah... those Yale emails are a marketing tool. That really does not tell you the odds of being accepted there. It's like a fee waiver, but without the financial incentive.
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  JPJ July2021 Core Member

  January 2019 1532 karma

  It's strictly enforced. Sometimes you can get out of it if you withdraw your app before a decision is rendered but that ship has sailed. Applying to Yale will absolutely jeopardize your acceptance from NYU. Top schools typically share their ED admits with each other so Yale could see that you already have a binding acceptance, which jeopardizes both your Yale app and your NYU acceptance. I know it's not what you want to hear, but if you're having second thoughts and no longer wish to attend NYU, you would have to wait and reapply next cycle.
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  redshift Alum Member

  January 2019 261 karma

  I don't want to be that guy, but you really shouldn't have applied early to NYU if you weren't 100% dead set on attending. You made a commitment to the school, and the fact that you're so eager to drop out of that commitment because another better offer may come your way shows that you applied early solely for the purposes of boosting your odds at admission. This character trait - not honoring your commitments - will likely not look good to Yale, especially considering that NYU probably shared information about your ED acceptance to them. If you do apply, you'll have to forgo your NYU acceptance, and it is likely that you'll walk away with rejections from both schools. Yale because they'll know from NYU that you reneged on an early admissions acceptance, and NYU because you broke a contract. I wouldn't risk it.
• buckmartin Alum Member

  January 2019 91 karma

  Did you particularly want to go to NYU or was it just a decision based on ranking and offers made?