<p>I was accepted EA but I'm not taking up the offer - I also got Chicago, which is much more my style (less prancing around being a 'community'). Georgetown has been very subtle, however, by not giving me any way to say no that I can find. While I want to respond before the regular action response deadline to free up my place, I'd like to know if there's something more 'official' than just sending them an email for me to do.</p>
<p>I’ve known one college to imply their offended but you would be making someone in the ap pool so happy when the RD’s are released. Waiting until the May deadline may or may not open a place considering the yield. Adcoms do not track and my only experience with this was from a stat protective women’s college.</p>
<p>One student declining an EA spot will not “open up” a RD spot. They rely on a certain percentage of students in both rounds to decline to offer, the OP would just be a part of that assumed percentage.</p>
<p>Send an email, that should be sufficient.</p>
<p>I read an article that says you should send a letter (or email to the admin) telling them you have accepted somewhere else and tell them where you are going. It is polite, and if you someday want to go to graduate school there, this apparently looks good to the admins. It was a letter from a professional college counselor.</p>