When one puts a "Do Not Contact" on that, it may mean that there's one place you're going, but it could also be two or three schools that are targeted.

A guy I play hoops with went through this with his son and they put up the "Do not contact" and some thought it was a done deal with a certain university. It wasn't. Choice #2 came through.

I asked him what he would've done if that school hadn't worked: "Then we would've called the next few on the list."