<p>How do I let Indiana U. and Michigan know I won't be coming? There doesn't seem to be any information about this on either applications, but I may just be missing something blatantly obvious. </p>
<p>Also: I already told Jacobs SOM that I won't be attending, so do I also have to inform Indiana?</p>
<p>Check the admissions material packet or admitted student’s website. There’s usually a card or a spot on the website to indicate a yes or a no. In the event you can’t find either, you can call and decline, or else email the music admission’s office to let them know. Snail mail will work as well.</p>
<p>Please formally decline if that is your intent. I’m sure there are students on the waitlist holding their breath for a spot.</p>
<p>This may not apply to the OP, but it did jog my memory about letting schools know you will not be coming. Our D applied to a number of schools, our big state school among them. It was a good option, but not her first choice. Just in case, however, we put in a deposit for housing, mostly to make sure she’d end up in a decent dorm. She ended up at Oberlin and we thought we let everybody everywhere know. A few months later we got a $500 no-show bill from ASU housing. We fought them on it, but in the end we had to pay it. It was in the fine print. We told the school and the school of music. Housing, unfortunately, was not not a part of that communication loop. Lesson learned.</p>
<p>Ouch. (I would have written that off as a tax deductible donation ;))</p>
<p>If students have had personal contact with a studio professor and requested that professor for a studio assignment, I think that it is a good idea for the student to contact that professor personally and let them know they will not be attending. Parents can help students with the wording to help them sound gracious and appreciative, but the contact needs to come from the student. The music community is relatively small and students need to maintain positive relationships when at all possible.</p>
<p>I would make it a point to both e-mail the admissions office, and also send a formal written decline as a follow up (either a standard card they provide, or a simple letter). This way as others have pointed out there is no miscommunication, plus by sending the e-mail they may be able to tell a waitlist student yes quicker:).</p>
<p>And I agree, if you have had personal contact with a teacher/professor in the department, who you were leaning towards if you went there, it is always wise to try and get in contact and explain why you weren’t going there. You never know, you may run across that person at a later date, or decide next year to study with him/her, so it always pays to maintain a civil relationship. </p>
<p>Just think of the story of Handel, who got his patron in Germany ***<em>ed off at him when he kept delaying returning home…and then that patron became King of England, George II …imagine how Handel felt then *lol</em> (watermusic was written as part of the process of raproachment I believe, still better to maintain a civil relationship!)</p>