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For Students: Early Decision contracts

Customer Support Team Updated by Customer Support Team

Early Decision (ED) is a binding agreement that means you’re committing to attend a college if you’re accepted. It’s a great option if you’re confident the school is your top choice—but you can only apply to one college this way.

To make that commitment official, colleges require an Early Decision contract, which confirms that you, your parent or guardian, and your school counselor all understand and agree to the terms. This contract helps the college know that everyone is on the same page before moving forward with your application.

How do I start an Early Decision contract?

These directions are only for students who are connected to their high school on Scoir. See here if you are unsure if you are linked to a high school in Scoir.

Early Decision contracts can be initiated from the My Colleges list.

  1. A college must first be added as an early decision application, by moving or adding the college to the Applying List and selecting Early Decision as the application type
Marking a college as Early Decision
  1. You'll see the Early Decision agreement, where you must check the acknowledgment box before selecting your parent/guardian or entering their contact information, and signing digitally
Be sure to double check your parent information is entered correctly!
  1. After doing this, your parent/guardian and your counselor will then need to sign on their end next for the contract to be complete. They will both receive emails and notifications from Scoir to do so.
  2. Once your parent/guardian and counselor sign the contract, the contract is complete and ready to be sent to your early decision applying college by your counselor!
Please note: Only your counselor will be able to track status of this document for you once they send it to the college. Counselors are the only ones who can send documents to your colleges in Scoir.


How do I add my parent/guardian to sign the Early Decision contract?

To add a parent/guardian to your Early Decision contract, simply choose your guardian's name from the dropdown list, or if you do not have a guardian linked to your account in Scoir, you may enter in your guardian's contact information directly on this.

Be sure to enter your parent/guradians information in this section, and NOT your own. You or your counselor will need to completely reset the early decision contract by if this is entered incorrectly.

When will I know my ED contract Is done?

When both your counselor and parent/guardian sign your ED Contract, you will receive a notification within your Messages tab notifications, alerting you that your ED Contract is complete.

Frequently asked questions

What if I don't want to apply Early Decision anymore?

No problem, just mark the school as Did Not Apply by clicking on the college tile and expanding it.

If you still want to apply to the college, but do not want to apply early decision, just re-add it to your Applying list after doing this.

What if I entered my parent/guardian information incorrectly or they didn't get the email to sign the Early Decision contract?

No worries—you can reset the contract! First, click on the college tile in your My Colleges list and mark the school as Did Not Apply.

Then, re-add the college to the Applying column and select Early Decision again.

This will reset the contract and restart the process, so you can enter the correct parent/guardian information and resend the signature request. following the directions above.

Can I complete a second Early Decision contract?
You can have only one active Early Decision contract on your profile.

To initiate a second Early Decision contract, the application outcome of the first college needs to be finalized first. You can update the outcome for the specific college under your My Colleges list. See directions for this here.

The outcome of the first ED contract has to be either Deferred or Denied in order to start a second ED contract. All other outcomes are not considered final.

After completing this, you can then initiate another early decision contract using the above directions.

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For Scoir connected students: Requesting a fee waiver

For Scoir connected students: Requesting transcripts

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