<p>My daughter would like to go ahead and decline admission at a couple of the colleges. But one place only allows her to "cancel" admission. I feel like they are doing it this way so it does not go against her stats. Frankly, this is a college is one that is so obsessed with rankings climbing that I have even noticed lies submitted by them on their public data information. For example, SAT scores are optional and they tell people with lower SAT scores to not submit. But then they put in their common data set that they are mandatory. This makes it appear that the score range is higher than it really is.</p>
<p>So I do not want to do anything that will help them be further deceptive on their stats by cancelling her admission application rather than declining the offer. Should I just leave it to stand until after the May 1 deadline?</p>
<p>I think this is where we tell you to get a life. I wouldn’t waste any energy on trying to ‘get them’. Just have your daughter do the right thing and let them know as soon as she has made a decision.</p>
<p>Do you have financial aid awards already from other schools that are workable for your family? If you are counting on FA and don’t have awards yet, I’d wait til to say no to colleges until you can assess the best package. </p>
<p>Oh for heavens sake. Why would you try to stick it to a college that your child does not plan to attend. There is no benefit in doing this. Just “cancel” the admission and move on. I agree with Brown Parent.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that you can make the jump that if one student declines admission, another is added from the wait list. Schools count on kids not accepting their offers and account for that in their acceptances to begin with.</p>
<p>What does your daughter want to do? Does she object to the “cancel admission” option? This seems to be her battle to fight with the school, if it’s important to her. However, you could assist other CC parents and students by identifying the school in question.</p>
<p>Not sure why this should be a battle at all. Just cancel the admission. Clearly, you can’t stand this school. Your refusal to cancel admission isn’t going to make a speck of difference to them. But really, it’s a bit rude not to respond. </p>
<p>I say…never burn bridges. Your DAUGHTER could decide to transfer to the school next year. </p>
<p>Let it go…Let it go…Turn away and slam the door.
There is no reason to get mad at any one school for trying to make their stats look better…all the competitive colleges do it.</p>
<p>I think you’re being a little hard on this parent, and think she has every right to want to handle this in a way that promotes fairness, even if it seems to you a trivial matter. Each life is made up of a lot of small decisions, and integrity is all about caring about even seemingly insignificant actions. Regardless, even if you’re correct in your assessment that she is wrong to be concerned, an attitude of “get a life” is unkind. That said, justice is served by exposing lies, and more could be accomplished by telling the forum what school it is and what your proof is. .</p>
<p>I dont understand what it means that they only let you cancel the admission. At my son’s HS the GC had pre-printed postcards that basically said thanks so much but I’ve made other plans. He just filled in Dear:_____ and that was that. </p>
<p>D was asked by one school to withdraw her application rather than decline the admissions offer, so it happens. In that case they were justified by the circumstances. But I can imagine there might be schools who ask that for yield management reasons.</p>