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poonseelai 發表於 17-5-10 20:45
会唔会係咁,以前可能有人hold三個位,好遲都唔放... While that is entirely possible I can't imagine it being a common practice.
During the first round of interviews, all ESF schools make their offers at the same time and have the same reply-by deadline, so people who receive multiple offers would simply accept the offer from their favourite school, pay the money to secure that place, and decline the other offers. What would be the point in accepting and paying a lot of money (e.g. $90k for RC) for a place at a second ESF school which the child is just not going to attend?
The only situation where people might hold on to a place which they don't really want is if during the first round the child does not get an interview with the favourite school but receives one from a backup school, and the child passes the interview with the backup school and receives an offer, then it would be reasonable to accept and pay for the place at the backup school while continuing to wait for the favourite school. If at some later date the favourite school also gives an interview and the child also passes and receives an offer, then one might accept the favourite school and give up the backup school. Courteous people would release the place at the backup school as soon as they accept the favourite school, but there is nothing to stop someone with a nasty trait to hold on to the unwanted place for as long as they like. Some people might think since they have paid much money for the place they want to "get their money's worth" by wasting as much time as possible, but I don't think there are many such people around.
I firmly believe this new policy has very little to do with preventing people from holding multiple ESF places for extensive periods, its main purpose is to lessen the amount of extra administrative work the backup schools (we all know which ones they are) have to do when many of their offers are declined or places are released. With the new policy, a child will at most get one interview, one offer, from one school, so the chances of offers declined or places released are low.
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