…write a SARCASTIC “Thanks but no thanks” letter to all the other schools you get in, or is that just conceited and disrespectful. Because the whole college admissions process is really making me wanna be conceited and disrespectful.
So yeah, I wouldn’t write a letter like this, but I just had the idea. Which of you guys would? Has anybody here done it b4? Quick replies, please…
<p>Actually, the correct thing to do is to write a respecful letter to all the schools that accept you telling them that you will not be attending. You should thank them for their time and be gracious. Some of them will enclose little card for this purpose, and if they do, that's enough.
Why burn your bridges? You're FAR too young for that!</p>
<p>I know all of this, I just wanted to know if any one had ever written **(or planned to) write a DISrespectful letter.</p>
<p>Why would you be disrespectful to the schools that DID accept you. If one was to write a disrespectful letter, shouldn't it be to the schools that DID NOT accept you?</p>
<p>EDIT: To answer you question, I'm probably sure that no one, at least not on overachieving CC, has written a letter like that.</p>
<p>Why would you dis the other schools that actually want you? I can understand sending a copy of your #1 acceptance letter to the schools that rejected you!! But that would be conceited and disrespectful! I don't really understand the desire to send a sarcastic note to a school that accepted you even before your #1 school did. But yes, it would be conceited, and a little disrespectful, but mostly it would just be silly and immature.</p>
<p>HA!!! Prophasi beat me to it!! LOL</p>
<p>I don't see why you'd want to be rude to the schools that DID accept you. They were never rude to you. Apparently, they actually liked you and wanted you to attend their school. Plus, like A.S.A.P. hinted at, if you decide to apply to them again for graduate school, you might be in more trouble (in other words, screwed) because they may "black list" or remember you. It's a small world.</p>
<p>None of you have even ever THOUGhT an evil thought before, then?</p>
<p>Yeah, we've certainly thought evil thoughts. We just didn't think about them enough to literally think about putting them into action. However, I don't think I've ever thought about sending a rude thanks but no thanks note to the universities that DID accept me. That's just wrong.</p>
<p>the world's a big place , but it's a small one and people have long memeories. Have you thought about you may want to attend one of those schools for Grad/Professional school where the application does ask have you ever applied or attended and the result. It would really suck to be you if you wrote a letter dising the school then wanted to come back. Never burn your bridges. Be happy for where you got accepted while being gracious and mature enough to simply drop the card in the mail with the box check that you will not be attending in the fall.</p>
<p>would you get off on the fact that you made someone feel bad for no reason? If not, I wouldn't bother. Well, maybe they wouldn't feel bad anyways, since it really isn't that personal a process with the really big colleges/universities.</p>
<p>I don't understand why you would even think about writing a sarcastic letter to the colleges that accepted you. What's the point? Do you usually get your jollies out of kicking in the teeth people who offer kindnesses to you whose kindnesses you decide not to accept?</p>
<p>I am sure that there are some mean spirited, small minded, cruel people who do write sarcastic letters turning down colleges. However, I think that the people who do that and who even contemplate doing that have some deficiencies or character that are not shared by most people.</p>
<p>One last thing: In the past, I have taken my time to make some thoughtful replies to your posts requesting college advice. Based on your lack of appreciation for colleges that accept you, I have now decided that it would be better to invest my time in the many students here who appreciate it when others help them out. I'd rather help people whose response is to reach out and help others. I don't want to help anyone whose response is to kick their helpers in the teeth.</p>
<p>Never burn bridges. Your first choice school might turn out to be the wrong choice once you go next year...and you'll be very happy to have kept up good relations with your other choices if you want to transfer.</p>
<p>Going off onto a related subject:</p>
<p>I would not even write a rude note to a school that did not accept me (luckily, that has not happened YET to me) let alone a school that did. For one thing, who knows whether or not I'll see those same people again (and I'm not just talking about applying again to the school later on but also applying for jobs after school). We don't know who else with which the people at one university have connections. Besides, even if my final school does reject me in the end, I would not be able to say anything negative about them because they have ALWAYS been helpful to me and, apparently, everyone else that has applied there. The competition is stiff, and I don't see why anyone would want to do anything to try to hurt a school. </p>
<p>Let them have the admissions process the way that they have it. At least this way, they give each of us the time and the "light of day" in the decision room that we all want and need.</p>