<p>Um, let's say that I haven't returned any of the slips saying whether I'm going to xxx school or not. Do I need to do that by the end of today? Or is it OK if I just don't fill anything out :S</p>
<p>I've already sent in my deposit to the school I want to go to.</p>
<p>Send them all tomorrow! Better late than never - it's not cool to keep colleges wondering about you.</p>
<p>Yeah, you should just send them out. I think it's just courteous.</p>
<p>On top of etiquette, there are people on waiting lists for colleges. When you send that "no" card, someone else might get a "yes" letter. Just think about that :)</p>
<p>Why would you not do the right thing and send in the cards, declinging the offer of admittance</p>
<p>by the time you posted here, you could have prepared the cards</p>
<p>I am serious, why would you think it is a good thing to not follow through and send in notification?</p>
<p>citygirlsmom: I don't appreciate the way your saying it (maybe your post just is coming off a different way then you intended it to). Your being rude, accusing me of not caring about it all and not doing the "right thing". If I truly didn't care at all, then I wouldn't be here making a post asking.</p>
<p>You act as if I'm refusing to follow through and send-in notification. I was simply asking about whether I HAD to do it by May 1st, and if I haven't already done so by May 1st, whether it'd even make a difference (cause the deadlines for sending in deposits to schools is May 1st, so if they aren't receiving a response, wouldn't they already know my decision based on that?). I plan on doing it, I just haven't really gotten around to it, been getting home around 7-8 PM, and been busy studying for finals and stuff, and just really haven't gotten around to sitting down for like a hour and filling out all the forms then going to the post office and mailing them.</p>
<p>What if I don't want to be "courteous"? Who cares? The colleges should be able to figure out that if I didn't send in the deposit, I'm not going. If they really need to know, they can easily follow up with a phone call…</p>
<p>-The Rude Coot66</p>
<p>to the OP- I asked the question because I was curious, why would a person not do the right thing? You asked if it was okay to not send in anything, and my question was Why would you not?</p>
<p>guess coot56 is a lazy person who cares nothing about others and just figures people can read his mind and doesn't worry about anything beyond himself</p>
<p>Imagine if his mom worked at an admissions office and had to call up rude people like him all the time, guess if they are missing some of his paperwork, his college shouldn't bother notifying him, yep, that would actually be cool</p>
<p>Many of us will assume after a period of time that you are not, in fact, going to come to our respective institutions; hence, don't be surprised if you receive a few "It is now two weeks past the Common Reply Date" (or something to that effect) letters from Admission offices. For lack of a better term, we will "cut loose" those students who have not responded, and who we assume have made other plans. A few students might be dredged up who do plan on enrolling and for whatever reason didn't get the deposit/confirmation to us by early May, but for the vast majority we will eventually conclude that you're no longer interested. </p>
<p>However, even if we might annually have between 10-15% of admitted students never respond to our offer at all (which we do, at Colby), you should return the simple card to inform us of your decision not to enroll--you don't even have to tell us where you're going, if you so choose (although it is helpful/interesting, clearly it's optional). The more students who respond, the more we have a sense of how the incoming class will shape up, and the sooner we may know about our Wait List--or, perhaps, how we might be able to administer financial aid to any transfer applicants who are <em>also</em> waiting in the wings. It's common courtesy, and it helps our admission planning/efforts-- and also your peers who are still hanging on, especially as some schools' Wait List activity will stretch into June and, perhaps, beyond. It's easy to do, and we will still look for this mail for the next several days at Colby (and I assume elsewhere), so please, go ahead and tell those other schools "no" immediately.</p>