<p>Sorry if this question has been asked.. I went through some posts and couldn't find a similar thread.</p>
<p>How do I decline their offer of admission?</p>
<p>Go on WA, application status, view decision, decline offer of admission</p>
<p>Oh! Thank you!</p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptance to Swarthmore!</p>
<p>you dont have to do anything. Why waste time and effort and do something that makes no difference to you? Sounds like opportunity cost for nothing to me.</p>
<p>Thanks, admissions people will surely appreciate that as they are trying to fine tune their yield estimates at this time to determine how many more spots are still available.</p>
<p>“you dont have to do anything. Why waste time and effort and do something that makes no difference to you? Sounds like opportunity cost for nothing to me.”</p>
<p>Spoken by an upperclassman who cannot resist providing his opinion on many, many things, without any apparent benefit to himself. Perhaps the OP wants to do the right thing for the benefit of deferred or waitlisted students. Indeed, it should be apparent that there is a domino effect. Students choose ivies or perhaps full-rides elsewhere over schools like UM, thereby opening UM slots for others (though maybe not on a one to one basis). This in turn frees up slots at other schools, once the new UM admittees decline elsewhere. Not sure what Ayn Rand would do, but I know what I would want my kids to do.</p>
<p>Thank you gc414 for being responsible!</p>
<p>Hey… I’m sure bearcats is just being satirical to those who don’t bother to reply to schools that they don’t intend to go to…</p>