OK, so if I understand correctly, no one is going to come arrest you if you don't honor an ED, but it would be considered unethical. Correct?
What's driving me crazy trying to figure out is this: If a D3 doesn't specifically say the application is an ED application, if the school actually only has rolling admissions, but a student applies within the time frame that would traditionally be ED, is this then treated just like any other application and not ED?
And as an extension of that, does any college consider an application an intention of attending if accepted? Because every coach we talk to says they want you to apply immediately. If this was solely about academics my kid would be applying for more than one school and then choosing which fit him best, so I don't understand how this works.
We are not in this situation, I just don't want to get us into it, so I wanted to figure this out.