<p>I just don't pay the deposits, right?</p>
<p>Right..... I mean if you don't reply or do something by May 1st, they probably will assume you're not planning to attend.</p>
<p>Admissions officer: "Do I have to tell kids who didn't get in that they got rejected? After all, won't they just assume they got rejected if they don't get a letter by April 1?"</p>
<p>Absurd? Of course. So is your question.</p>
<p>Do you really want colleges to assume you're not coming if you don't pay by May 1? What if your deposit got lost in the mail? "Sorry, kid, we got it on May 5, but we already gave your spot away. We assumed you weren't coming."</p>
<p>You should notify them that you are not coming, so that they can see what kind of class they have and whether they should go to their waitlist. Make some other kid's day.</p>
<p>And you don't want to burn bridges. Suppose you want to transfer here? Or go to grad school? </p>
<p>E-mail them and tell them thanks but no thanks. It'll take all of 30 seconds to do.</p>
<p>This was the only school that offered no means to decline their offer. One would have to assume that the red tape at Penn State will be unbearable.</p>
<p>It's pretty easy to decline on-line. Just log into the Penn State account you opened when you filled out your application. If you can't remember passwords,etc, there are ways to get them. then just click the place where it says that you decline the offer.</p>
<p>Wow, I'm really sorry that my question was so absurd, Chedva. All I asked was a simple question. I have rejected the other colleges by mail and through the internet, but I did find anything about declining the offer on Penn State's site or on my acceptance package, and so I simply assumed that there was no means of declining the offer. </p>
<p>You could have just said that I should send them a simple letter stating that I chose to go somewhere else.</p>
<p>I could have. And you could have thought about it a bit and realized that simple manners require a response.</p>