<p>Hi, how does one decline an offer of admission after sending a deposit? I "double deposited" because transfer decisions don't all come out at once -- they come out in weird intervals where if I don't accept before a deadline, I lose my spot, despite the fact that I'm waiting for other schools to extend an offer. I clearly cannot attend both schools I deposited to. Is there a formal procedure or do I merely call up the Admissions and inform them I'm no longer able to attend?</p>
<p>I’m not sure how legal this is - you may have wanted to ask for an extension. You should call up admissions and ask very politely.</p>
<p>Most private schools have a policy which gives them the right to deny your admission if they find out you’ve made a deposit to another school. Be careful. Ask for an extension.</p>
<p>I would just email or call them that you got accepted to a school off the waitlist and decided to attend xxx university. and to withdraw your spot. something along those lines.</p>
<p>i had to do this as well.
i just sent a nice letter to the transfer admissions counselor at the school telling them that i was surprised to find out i got accepted to my first choice.
i think most colleges are aware that this may happen so i doubt they would automatically withdraw you if they find out you’ve accepted at schools.
i’m sure this happens a lot more than people think, especially with people getting accepted off waitlists.</p>
<p>I’ll possibly be in the same position, or at least a similar one. I was accepted to my “safety” school at the end of April, my deposit was due early May. So far, I have not received decisions from the others schools I have applied to nor will I for a few weeks, likely. I didn’t like the idea of asking the first school for a month extension, so I made the deposit. If I get accepted to one of the other schools, I’ll likely withdraw my spot at the first school and make a deposit for the other. </p>
<p>I don’t really see this as being unethical, but I do see it as being a sticky situation. However, with schools giving transfer notifications out at such different dates, I don’t know how this can be avoided. Or maybe it can, will schools really give 1-2 month extensions? It seems like a stretch to me.</p>
<p>Also, what is the probability that one of the other schools I have applied to, and am waiting on, will discover that I have already made a deposit to another school?</p>
<p>It’s not illegal. I did not sign a contract. There was no statement that I was contractually binding myself to the school (trust me, I looked all over). Moreover, 99% of schools don’t extend deadlines just because you’re waiting for another school – they will only do it if you’re waiting for financial aid. The deposit reserved my spot. I checked to see if I was saying yes to ‘I 100% legally bind myself to attending this school.’ Some of you make baseless insinuations about the illegality of accepting an offer. Sometimes transfers receive results MONTHS APART. It’s stupid to accept no offer because you’re holding out for the reach school that notifies in late May or early June.</p>
<p>It’s not illegal unless you signed something that specifically said that you agreed to ONLY accept the offer of admissions from X and from no other…which anyone on the planet would be an idiot to do something like that if they hadn’t heard from other schools. If you sent a deposit and have now found out you prefer another school, let them know and let them know you will be attending elsewhere. You are under no obligation to even tell them “where”…I mean, did they send you a list of all the other people they accepted? No. You may not get your deposit back, probably wont, as that is the “cost” of reserving the spot…</p>
<p>I’ve done it before. Put in a deposit and cancelled. I lost the deposit money, but the school was fine with it. It happens, often.</p>
<p>Hundreds of waitlisted students who “get in off the wait list” do this every year.</p>