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Suppose you are accepted to schools A, B, and C. You choose to go to school A, and withdraw from schools B and C well in advance of the May 15th deadline. On the afternoon of May 14th, suppose you hypothetically get a cryptic phone message from the dean of admissions at school D (where you had been waitlisted) telling them to call you back, which you do, but they don't pick up and you leave a message. Now May 15th is winding down and they still haven't called you back.
Is school A going to wake up on May 16th, see that you have two acceptances (maybe??) and get pissed and withdraw their offer? I understand that for offers after May 15th, you get a "reasonable amount of time" to make decisions between the schools. But you got this acceptance before May 15th (well, you assume it's an acceptance, although the possibility exists the dean was just calling to say hi and/or reject you personally because you suck that much). To be clear, you think you might ultimately like school A more than school D, but money is a factor, and in the meanwhile you don't want school A to think you are cheating on them.
Is school A going to wake up on May 16th, see that you have two acceptances (maybe??) and get pissed and withdraw their offer? I understand that for offers after May 15th, you get a "reasonable amount of time" to make decisions between the schools. But you got this acceptance before May 15th (well, you assume it's an acceptance, although the possibility exists the dean was just calling to say hi and/or reject you personally because you suck that much). To be clear, you think you might ultimately like school A more than school D, but money is a factor, and in the meanwhile you don't want school A to think you are cheating on them.