<p>I do not think if you "have to" is the best question ... I think the better question is "should you?" Do you have to? No. Should you? Yes ... it takes 30 seconds to fill out a reply card and it helps the school understand it's true enrollment and, more importantly, it potentially helps all your fellow classmates who are on the waiting list at that school. The sooner schools know for sure their enrollment situation the sooner everything settles for everyone in the process. Seems like a worthy investment of 30 seconds to me.</p>
<p>Send them a reject letter.</p>
<p>"Do I have to inform each applicant to the college I work at that they haven't been admitted or put on the wait list? There are thousands of them, and it'll take a lot of time. When they don't get their admissions letter, won't they just know?"</p>
<p>If that doesn't make sense to you, then neither does your question.</p>
<p>It takes 30 seconds to send back the response card. If there is no response card, it will take 30 seconds to send an e-mail that says "Thank you for your offer, but I must decline. I will be attending ______." If you don't want to tell them where you're going, you don't have to.</p>
<p>There are two good reasons for telling them: 1) You could make someone's day from the waitlist.
2) You don't want to burn any bridges. Suppose you don't like your school and want to transfer (or go to grad school there). They'll pull your file and see that you didn't even bother to respond. Not good.</p>
<p>Is it considered proper etiquette to formally natify a college that you are declining their decision to admit you? </p>
<p>I am asking for a friend.</p>
<p>My turn to send rejection letters?
LOL, the thing is I'm currently not in US, so it takes a lot of money to send each letter to US even through the cheapest mail, and when I have to send it to 11 universities, it will be tough.</p>
<p>I think I'll simply e-mail.</p>
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Is it considered proper etiquette to formally natify a college that you are declining their decision to admit you?
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Yes. You can either use e-mail or snail mail.</p>
<p>I just sent my deposit to the school I am going to. I sent back the cards to the other schools that accepted me. Then I e-mailed the admissions contact person from each school I declined. Why?</p>
<p>I did this as a favor to subsequent applicants from my high school. Each school I declined offered me serious merit aid and were very encouraging of my application. I would like to think they'd think well of my high school to continue to make strong offers to its students.</p>
<p>It was so encouraging to get great offers and I could never show enough gratitude to the admissions counselors who believed in me. Somehow just checking the "decline admission" box did not seem like enough.</p>
<p>With the yield rates around, if everyone sent a decline letter to them, they'd be overloaded with them.</p>
<p>after I got into my first choice school EA, I pulled all my UC applications with please don't consider me letters. Somehow I still got into UCSD. Do I still send them a letter declining again?</p>
<p>What is the right way to say no, thank you to the colleges your child is not attending? Letter? E-mail? Phone call?</p>
<p>Many of them send reply cards (it is just a postcard included with the packages). Did they come with acceptance packages? My son just sent back the reply cards, answered the questionnaires as to why "no thanks" if they sent those, and one school called well before May 1 to ask my son if he was going to attend (they actually used a telemarketing company to make the call).</p>
<p>Well, usually with your acceptance package you end up getting a reply letter where you decline and tell them what school you are going to. If you cannot find it, right a nice email rejecting their offer, and tell them where you're going instead.</p>
<p>PLEASE everyone at least email the schools they're declining! Help those of us stuck on the wait list for our top schools!!</p>
<p>I emailed all of the schools that I was declining acceptance to. Wanted to give all the kids on the wail list a chance.</p>
<p>That's because you're fabulous, Meadesport! haha</p>
<p>who should we email?</p>
<p>Do we also have to decline the individual financial aid offers from the schools we won't be attending, or is sending in the reply card enough?</p>
<p>1) E-mail either your admissions rep, if you've met him/her, the Dean of Admissions, or just use the generic admissions e-mail address.</p>
<p>2) No, you don't have to decline the FA offers. The admissions office will communicate with the FA office.</p>
<p>ok, i guess in addition to my reply cards, i'll write them an email....</p>
<p>Just e-mail the admission office saying no.
I just sent 12 of these. :)</p>