OK to Email Decision Not To Attend

<p>Is it OK email the Admissions Office your decision not to attend, or should it really be on paper? Is it important to say where you are attending and why?</p>

<p>I don't see why you could not email, but my son just mailed the postcard when it was povided, and snail mailed the rest. He did comment when the reason for not attending was a poor aid package. I don't recall whether he decided to tell each school where he was attending, but I remember that we wrestled with it just like you are doing now.</p>

<p>On of the Admission Coun addressed this on another section. He/she said that though they like to know where the student is going, it is more important that they know he/she is not coming to them. And any method used to notify them is fine.</p>

<p>Some of the colleges my son denied had asked him to send his decision via e-mail. I think it would be easier to track then a postcard.</p>

<p>My son wrote personal letters to each of the admissions officers he met at each of the schools he turned down.</p>

<p>In return he received notes from 6/7 saying "please let us know if you change your mind."</p>

<p>Sure, you can send an email! By, why not take the chance to convey a personal feeling. True story....the person my older son said no to at one school was the admissions officer who interviewed, read the application and accepted my younger son at a different (much harder to get into school) the following year!!</p>

<p>Sure, use email if you want to. You paid for a service (the admission fee), you are the customer, use the method you want.</p>

<p>I emailed schools to which I was admitted or at which I was waitlisted. I always included where I was attending. For a couple of them I stated briefly why I chose the other school, and for a couple I complimented something I liked about the school I was turning down or their admissions process. I got emails back from Harvard and Hopkins, I believe. I was a little past the May 1 date, by the way, so that was one of the main reasons why I decided to send emails.</p>

<p>My dd emailed all of them, and in one case sent one to the college President as well as the admissions officer of a particular school. Since she had struggled so much with the decision to turn that one down, she really wanted to make it clear why she did so. She also said that if it had turned out that her chosen school was not a great fit afterall, she wanted to leave her options open for transfer.
Surprisingly, the President actually emailed her back, and welcomed her in the future if things didn't work out for her at choice #1.
Emailing, therefore, seemed just fine.</p>

<p>How did the school notify you?</p>

<p>If via email, than an email in reply is fine.</p>

<p>If they sent a letter, they probably sent a postcard or form to send back and it's probably postage paid. That seems to me to be even easier than emailing</p>

<p>5 of son's 6 schools sent forms to fill out that either came with postage paid envelopes, or a postage paid postcard. Only Providence sent a form with no envelope. Perhaps we should have emailed Providence, but the rest were (or will be) mailed back.</p>

<p>Makes sense Lafalum84. Thanks.</p>