<p>Okay so I completely messed up. I accidentally accepted my offer of admission to U of I.
However, I have not heard back from many schools yet...so I was wondering, does this matter? Can other colleges somehow figure this out and therefore just throw away my application?</p>
<p>Also, I don't want to go back and decline it because I may still want to go to U of I...</p>
<p>I think your best bet would be to contact the university and let them know that you accidentally accepted their offer of admission, and that you are still undecided. Hopefully, they will be understanding and change your status to undecided.</p>
<p>I tried but they said I can only accept or decline…</p>
<p>My only concern is that other colleges I applied to will know about this</p>
<p>You need to call the admissions office to tell them about this. The quicker, the better!</p>
<p>I tried calling again but they’re closed
Guess I’ll have to wait until monday</p>
<p>Yes, try to get through to somebody, but UIUC is a B1G school, and one office doesn’t always know what’s going on in the other offices. My son applied to UIUC, then notified them to withdraw his app, he was accepted ED at another school. 30 days later he got a nice congratulatory letter and brochure welcoming him to the UIUC Honors Program.</p>
<p>Stuff happens.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s not uncommon to accept a school, then change your mind if you get into another school that’s a higher choice. The biggest downside, is that you may have to put down a deposit, which you’ll forfeit if you get into a better choice. I don’t think that UIUC will tell other colleges.</p>
<p>Good luck!!!</p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter that you accepted. Think about this: when you are put on the waitlist at a college, that college always tells you to accept admission at another college to be certain that you have an option. If you get off the waitlist (and want to attend), the standard procedure is then to call the first college and withdraw your acceptance. Your situation is no different, either ethically or practically. Indeed, many large state universities will not allocate housing, or even put you in the queue for housing, unless you have accepted their offer. If you wait to accept their offer until late spring, you don’t get good housing. So people accept offers all the time, get on housing lists, and then wait and see what happens with their other college applications. If they get into a college that they prefer, they then simply withdraw their acceptance to the original college. It is truly no big deal and no college, after admitting you, is sending your name around to 3,000 other colleges so they can match you up and see if you’ve been admitted or not. There is no software to do this and it would be impracticable anyway (3,000,000 high school grads x 3,000 schools = 9 BILLION notices). I suggest doing nothing. You’re fine. Just withdraw if you get a better acceptance down the road.</p>
<p>Just curious… how does one accidentally accept an offer of admission?</p>
<p>w t f lol how did you accidentally accept the offer of acceptance? Don’t you have to mail the deposit in and everything?</p>
<p>I agree with post#8. It’s not a big deal. You might loose some deposit but you can change your mind.</p>
<p>And NO, other schools won’t find out that you’ve accepted Uof I. I had a UMich early accept in my back pocket and applied to a select group of colleges in December of my Sr year. They didn’t know or care much either.</p>
<p>For other than having been accepted somewhere early decision which prohibits you from accepting elsewhere, you can accept admission to any colleges and then just withdraw by May when you make a final decision. Both the college you accept at, including U of I, and the other colleges that you are waiting on all allow that.</p>
<p>@everyone going like “*** how do you accidently accept an offer”
For UIUC you just had to click on the link and check a box and you accept the offer. Most likely no deposit has been sent yet, so OP, call and tell them you made a mistake. Write emails too.</p>