<p>I can't figure out how to decline a spot on the WashU waitlist. Help...? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>If you didn’t accept a spot, you automatically decline.
At least that’s how it works for other schools.</p>
<p>Very simple, to be on the WL, you have to be proactive and tell the school you are accepting a spot on the WL. If you don’t do that, you are not on the WL.</p>
<p>Out of curiousity, why so quick to decline?</p>
<p>So quick? Everyone has to have their decisions in by Thursday.</p>
<p>But you can stay on the waitlist even after accepting somewhere else (stating the obvious to you fallenchem)… (unless OP meant he was on the waitlist, was offered a seat, and now wants to decline). I assumed he meant he was on the waitlist and now just is willing to take his name off of it. Ambiguous at best.</p>
<p>He doesn’t like being abused by WUSTL’s excessive WL techniques. 8)</p>
<p>I think the point was not “quickness” per se but rather “keeping your options open”. It costs nothing to wait list. (except a little additional strain on your ego when you are ultimately rejected. LOL)</p>
<p>Well, apparently it is all irrelevant since if he never replied to the wait list he was never on it, according to ST2 and others. When I saw the word decline I thought the poster was asking why the OP was declining an actual offer FROM the waitlist. My mistake, but now you know why my comment was what it was.</p>