<p>Is it necessary to decline all college acceptances? I got into around 10 schools so this will be a little but confusing if the answer is yes....</p>
<p>No, just notify the school you want to attend.</p>
<p>It isn’t required but you can.</p>
<p>It’s considered polite. Most schools, in their online portal, have a form where you can accept or decline the offer. Formally declining also means you’ll stop getting emails from that school as well, which can reduce some annoyance in the days approaching May 1st.</p>
<p>Is it possible to unwithdraw? I still want the emails 
They make me feel important haha</p>
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<p>yeah I think it is a kind thing to do to let the admission officers know that you are not attending the school so they won’t have to deal with everything on May 1st. But of course you want to be absolutely sure that you will not attend the school.</p>
<p>College admissions officer:
“Do we have to notify the kids we’re not accepting? Won’t they just know that they didn’t get in if they don’t hear from us by April 1?”</p>
<p>How does that sound to you? That’s how not notifying the colleges that have accepted you sounds to them. Why would you want to make them chase you to find out that you’re not going there? A simple e-mail would suffice.</p>
<p>My D declined 7 schools and promptly received letters back from 3 or 4 of them thanking her for the courtesy of letting them know and wishing her well.</p>
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<p>just e-mail the schools’ admissions office. It doesn’t take long and like the others said, it’s polite. Just a simple “thank you for your consideration, but i have chosen to not attend…” is probably good enough. Only took me around 20 minutes to find and e-mail the 6 schools I turned down.</p>
<p>i can understand wanting the e-mails though, they make me feel good too :p</p>
<p>Had they declined you would you have expected a notification? It’s that simple, and only takes a moment.</p>
<p>Think of all the poor kids on the waiting list! They want to know.</p>
<p>A school that I didn’t formally decline assumed I was going to enroll. Decline the offers, whether it’s an online form, an email, or (as in my case) by snail mail.</p>
<p>by the time you read this thread, you could have notifed the schools</p>
<p>I did that. UWisconsin-Madison and Pitt replied with a polite-sounding stock e-mail. The UVM admissions counselor said “Thanks for letting us know.” The other two schools never responded. :P</p>
<p>Thanks. Didn’t even think of e-mailing them. My son spent 20 min. trying to find a way to decline an offer on the online portal for one of the schools, but could not find it. Almost as if the school would not include declining as an option - pretending that everyone who gets in would accept it. But e-mailing makes sense.</p>