<p>I am revisiting two of my schools, but that leaves three that I was accepted to and don't want to go to. I was just wondering how to word a note or something to send to them. "Sorry, but I am not going to be putting a deposit down."? I want to free up those spaces for potential waitlisters, but I'm having problems getting the words down.</p>
<p>How avout:</p>
<p>Dear[insert school name here] Admissions,</p>
<p>I sorry to say that I do not intend to attend [insert school name here] in Fall 2010. Even though it is a great school I have decided to matriculate elsewhere…
Sincerely, Yo’ Mama
and yeah take it from there…</p>
<p>Thank the school for the admission. State how pleased you were to receive its invitation to attend that school next fall. Describe the several things you really liked about the school, and then tell the school that you are very sorry to inform it that you will not be able to accept its wonderful offer to enroll. If you like, you also might want to tell it that you plan to attend a different BS and then name that other BS. </p>
<p>Be sweet. Be sincere. Rememebr: This school never had to accept you, and you should express your deep appreciation that it did.</p>
<p>and most importantly > do it with haste since there are plenty of students who are waitlisted and for whom its very important to have an opened up space</p>
<p>They usually have response cards that come with the enrollment forms…</p>
<p>DO NOTIFICATION NOW…not that i want to go to hotchkiss or anything but just saying you could be helping those who only got waitlisted and not accepted.</p>
<p>^ candidate123: it really doesn’t work like that, they calculate using their previous yield and all that… unless a LOT of people (or more than they predicted) refuse, people won’t get off the waitlist</p>
<p>DiveAlive is right. At the earliest, schools will not be giving you waitlist notification until after April 10th. Many people will not send in contracts and stuff until the 10th and then the school needs a while to process and do their calculations.</p>
<p>Just use the response card that comes with the acceptance letter.</p>
<p>DiveAlive, the schools have calculated a yield. On the other hand, if a sports recruit turns down an offer of admission, the school may turn to the waitlist if that candidate had a rare talent. If the school needs baseball pitchers, and the two they’ve admitted go elsewhere, the school may turn to any pitchers on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Write a short letter saying:</p>
<p>Dear Director of Admission,</p>
<p>I regret to inform you that I must decline on your offer of admission</p>
<p>Something along those lines and tell them that you don’t feel that the school is a right fit and your not sure it’s for you if that’s the reason. They’ll understand. It’s a boarding school and it should feel right. Keep it short and nice.</p>
<p>Yes, all of you out there who decides not to go to a school, NOTIFY THEM! It would be helping everyone who’s waitlisted so much!
Oh, an the letter could be something like,</p>
<p>Dear Mr/Ms…
Thank you for admitting me to… school. I’m honored to have been considered, but unfortunately, I (state reason for not going, blah blah blah)
Again, thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity. I regret having to decline this offer.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
XXX</p>
<p>Hope this might help!</p>
<p>Ok, I want to make it clear that it does not help waitlisted people UNLESS the school receives more of these letters than they planned for. The admission committees have done this long enough so its not super likely that people will be taken off waitlists at all, let alone before April 10th.</p>
<p>Also, I’m sending out the letters to all the schools that I’m not revisiting tomorrow and letters to the two I will revisit probably the 8th or 9th since my last revisit is the 7th.</p>
<p>We were very gentle about this, particularly since we have son in 5th grade who will be applying in a few years. In general, I think we handled it very well, explaining honestly why my son preferred Stuyvesant (a magnet public school) to the particular school but still highlightling what attracted us to that school originally.</p>