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Please decline your offer if you do not want to go

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:34 am
by bigbang
As we all know, the deadline (April 15, 2022) to receive, accept, and decline admission offers is fast approaching. It is a humble request to all those who currently have multiple offers to decline offers from the places they do not want to go. This request may sound obvious, and many might not have made up their mind to date. But with every passing day, especially now when we have just 10 days left, the anxiety of those who are on the waitlists of some of the schools is rapidly intensifying. The more you delay in declining your offers, the lesser are chances of those on the waiting lists actually receiving an offer and/or getting the usual, adequate funding for the program since it has happened earlier that some places have offered a couple of spots lesser than usual they planned to offer in that cycle simply because many people declined their offers very very close to 15th April. For those who are sure of not going to a certain place, it would be very generous of you to decline your admission offer as soon as possible, practically in time that the school concerned can sleep over it and offer it to someone from their waitlist. Your timely rejection of an offer you do not want may literally become a changing point in someone's academic life. Please do consider this request.

PS: This is not a request just due to the anxiety and restlessness of some of us who are waiting to hear from certain places, but it is a practical request because almost all schools also strongly insist that you inform them as soon as you decide to decline your offer - there must be some practical reasoning behind this insistence.

Re: Please decline your offer if you do not want to go

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2022 11:04 am
by Tempestoso
Totally agree... I am applying for pure math programs and I have no offers right now, but I am waitlisted by 3 schools: UW Madison, Penn and Cornell. I really wish I can be admitted by one of them in a few days... :(

Re: Please decline your offer if you do not want to go

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:41 am
by Cophysneurec
Just did. Thanks for the reminder

Re: Please decline your offer if you do not want to go

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 12:03 am
by watermelon117
To anyone who received an offer from Maryland: if you do not plan to attend, could you turn down your offer?

I was told by the director of graduate studies that I was in the first group of consideration on the waitlist, yet they did not have enough declinations from applicants to send out a second round of offers.

This can help students like me a lot. Thank you very much!!!

Re: Please decline your offer if you do not want to go

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 12:46 am
by ekansh2912
It is a soft reminder for those who have received more than one offers to please decline/reject their offers from all the other places where they do not want to go. Please consider taking your decision promptly, for it's April 12 already. It will indeed be of great help to many others.