My D was admitted ed and has withdrawn her app from all the other schools. However, her high school has sent transcripts to all the schools to which she planned to apply and some of those schools also have her test scores.
One of her friends was deferred ED to a small LAC that had my D’s info. My D wondered if she should have sent a note to the school to let them know she wasn’t applying. Her thought process was the LAC might say “let’s see if this other candidate from the same school applies and choose between the two during RD.” This type of analysis would have been a lot of work in the days of paper applications but in the era of big data, it’s pretty easy.
If she never sent the actual app, then there’s no requirement to send a cancellation note. It might be polite to shoot off an email – but in reality, she never applied. The LAC won’t do that level of comparison
I agree it doesn’t hurt. Funny story. My nephew got into his ED college. He told all his other colleges he was withdrawing his application. But one college apparently didn’t get the message - he’d had an interview, sent the scores, and filled out some but not all of the application. Come April, they accept him even though his application was incomplete.
All the above is true, but it doesn’t hurt. My D had several positive communications via email with a rep at an excellent college that is known to take students from our school. In the end she decided not to apply, although transcripts and test scores had been sent. She didn’t want to do any potential damage to the relationship between our school and the colllege and decided it was better to just send a short email explaining that she wasn’t going to apply. She received a nice reply, and I still wonder if that college was “the one that got away.”
The main value to the college of that sort of note is that they can remove the person from their mailing lists – so probably if your DD sends an email, it should also include a request for removal from the mailing lists. Otherwise she could expect to receive email reminders about applying as the RD deadline approaches, even after the RD deadline, and continuing paper mail depending on the colleges practices. (Some never seem to give up with the promotional material)
At most schools, they are never going to look at test scores and transcripts unless it is part of an application. The pieces get filed away, and only when they get matched to the app, does an adcom look at them. Nice of your D to be concerned about her friend, but her scores had no bearing on her friend’s deferral.
thanks for the replies, I’ll ask her to send a note to the remaining schools, it certainly would be nice to get off mailing lists. U of Chicago in particular is absolutely relentless (and it’s not on her list of schools).
If only this worked. We got mail and email for both of our kids well into their undergrad years from schools they did not choose to attend. Once you are on those mailing lists,I think is just bout impossible to get OFF of them .
RE: sending emails…you don’t have to if no application has been submitted…but I guess there is no harm in doing so!
Yes, and they are also one that has a history of sending out mail or email after their application deadline, just in case the student forgot to submit their application…
My D sent emails to the admissions officers that she had interviewed with once she got an ED acceptance at her top choice college. She had not filed her application to these colleges. It took just a few minutes to do. It seemed like good manners and it could reflect well both on her (in the event she was not happy at her ED college) and her HS going forward. As an aside, two schools didn’t reply to her email and one admissions rep sent an absolutely lovely note back to her.
Quite a few years ago, my S interviewed with, filled out the pre-app (basically name and address), and sent test scores to a school that he then never followed through with or filled out an actual app for because of ED acceptance. He didn’t write to them as he hadn’t actually applied.
In the spring, they rejected him–guess it helped their statistics?