Accepting an offer and then rejecting

[laplaceiitkgp]

Can we accept 2 offers and then reject one of them later? Has anyone done this before?

[zhangvict]

That sounds a little contradictory. Accepting entails a commitment to a contract of employment as a PhD student. It is never acceptable for university would accept a student and then reject them; why should it be asymmetric from the perspective of the employee?

[Fw1812]

Yeah this sounds like a terrible, awful, atrocious, redundant-adjective-inducing idea.

[AMGMScrub]

I believe if you accept an offer, it's binding. When you want to accept another offer, you have to get a written release from the first school. I don't know what the name of the document that states this, but you can easily find it.

[leviethai]

No matter whether you can do it or not, you should have not done that.

[Ivanjam]

Can we accept 2 offers and then reject one of them later? Has anyone done this before?

The answer is yes, provided that you do so in writing prior to April 15: http://cgsnet.org/april-15-resolution