<p>Hello, I was recently accepted into one of my top choice programs. However, I have a number of other interviews scheduled. One of my safety schools is scheduled for next week (the flight would be 6 days from now). They've already made flight and hotel arrangements as well as appointments with faculty. I really like the program that has already accepted me, and will likely go there. What do I do about this safety interview? Is it too late to cancel? I would also get back from it a day before another interview (at one of my other top choices), which is a factor to consider.</p>
<p>Please advise. Can I respectfully cancel, or would it be better to go even if I don't think I'm going to attend that school?</p>
<p>I just had to cancel one of my safety school interviews after I got into my top two choices for school… It sucks to have to call the school and cancel after they’ve paid for flight and hotel, but they will most likely be able to get some if not all of the money they’ve spent on you back and there is no sense in going to the school if you absolutely know that you will not end up there. </p>
<p>Also, it would probably be better to call than email, but be ready they may or may not try to sucker you into going to the interview if you’re a strong applicant and they want you?</p>
<p>If you’re not going to go to that school, be upfront and cancel the interview. I’m sure they would appreciate you wasting less of their time and money.</p>
<p>If it was more than a week out, I would be more okay with canceling…but it’s such short notice…and they probably wouldn’t get the email (or call) until Monday? EEk.</p>
<p>Yea but going on the interview is giving the false hope that they even remotely have the chance of pulling a student like you into the program. </p>
<p>And again after talking to my PI, who is the graduate director at my school, she said that letting them know any day except maybe the day before or the day of is helpful to them in the long run</p>
<p>The fact is you got accepted somewhere else you’d rather go, so you are cancelling the interview. They are not stupid - they understand you are deciding among many schools. Just say, “I got accepted somewhere else I’d rather go; therefore I don’t need the interview.” They will appreciate this far, far more than a cowardly pity interview where you just go through the motions and waste everyone’s time.</p>
<p>I’d cancel, rather than waste the time of many profs and grad students. Hopefully, school will get sme reimburement for flight, but they will surely save on hotel and meals. I think this happens more often than u may think.</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad! Feel GOOD…You may have just helped another applicant get into their top choice! </p>
<p>Honestly, It’s better not to waste their time. If they can’t recoup the funds they spent on you, it will be a tax write-off, win win!</p>
<p>You should be spending your time celebrating the acceptance to your top choice, not worrying about how people with very little effect on your future feel about your brief interaction with them! If they were rude, then all the better you didn’t go there!</p>
<p>I had to cancel an interview today! Actually I had to totally reject the invite the day it arrived because I had already accepted another offer! Not a bad program either: Tulane!</p>
<p>They were really happy I got back to them so soon, maybe some other lucky applicant will get the chance I just turned down :)</p>