Accepting two offers at the same time

Hello everyone, it's me again. I received offers from two universities that I really like, but the scholarships I applied to only publish their results in June. Both universities request that you respond to the offer in early March and even make a deposit. Would it be acceptable for me to accept both offers and then when I find out if I win the scholarship, I reject the university for which I do not have financing? Could I ask you to extend the term to make the deposit? Is this common? I would prefer not to make the deposits but if I have no other choice I will.

Hello everyone, it's me again. I received offers from two universities that I really like, but the scholarships I applied to only publish their results in June. Both universities request that you respond to the offer in early March and even make a deposit. Would it be acceptable for me to accept both offers and then when I find out if I win the scholarship, I reject the university for which I do not have financing? Could I ask you to extend the term to make the deposit? Is this common? I would prefer not to make the deposits but if I have no other choice I will.

Assuming you are talking about postgraduate degrees, then it's perfectly normal to accept multiple offers and then reject the ones you don't want once you've got the info you need to make a decision. Universities will rarely extend the term to pay a deposit, unfortunately.

Hi - I am currently in the same situation and was wondering if you were ok putting down a deposit for two different universities?

You can pay 20 deposits if you really want to. It’s just that you are liable to lose them if you don’t take up the place.

It’s common to ask for short extensions to juggle deadlines, but the unis may not be able to give you the time you need. No harm in asking though.

I don't mind losing the deposit. I got my first offer 2 months before my second. One requires me to get a 1:1, the other wants a 2:1. My grade average is exactly 70% so it is a 50/50 either way. I had already accepted the first class offer and want to accept the second class as a backup.

My concern is that I could be liable to then lose both places if the unis found out I put down two deposits. The unis in question are Imperial and UCL

If they are both postgrad courses then there’s no way for them to find out and it’s not that uncommon to accept multiple offers anyway. I’m sure one of them would be happy to keep the deposit

Ok, this is reassuring. Would it even be legal for one university to share details of me putting down a deposit to the other without my permission?

Ok, this is reassuring. Would it even be legal for one university to share details of me putting down a deposit to the other without my permission?

Why would they? Do you think every university that makes a student an offer and gets an acceptance checks every other university in the country (world?) to see if they've accepted an offer elsewhere?

If you are in the rare and fortunate position to be able to afford to lose a deposit, just do it. The university gets a student or a deposit, and they don't much care which.