Yesterday, I officially declined my offer of admission at Bard College. I am starting to regret it because I think I may have only declined because I was scared of failing there. I really liked the campus when I went for a tour two weeks ago, but since then I’ve been overthinking it I think and turned it down under the guise that their policy program is too “theoretical”. (I mean, I still have that concern, but there’s other positives of Bard that made up for it like the fact they’re curriculum is more essay based then test based, which would have been great for me, as I have MS, and don’t do well on tests because my short term memory is crap but I write well.) I’m afraid I turned down a really great oppurtunity. I don’t think there’s anything I can do, but I needed to vent, has any been there?
You can contact them today and see if you can still transfer there. They may not have offered your spot to someone else yet. But do not wait!
Unless, of course, it is that you do not really wish to transfer after all…
@thegreyking i was thinking of doing that, since it is past the deadline, I’m sure they’ve moved onto their waitlisted students, though. I also don’t know if I really want to go, before I visited Bard, I didn’t want to go, I only visited so I could say I made a informed decision. It wasn’t until I took a tour, I actually started to change my mind. Before the tour, I literally walked around campus thinking, “Ok I don’t like this place at all.” My last two weeks have just been confusion, never firmly in the Bard camp. Should I just do a semester at this alternate school and try reapplying for 2019? (should note, originally, I was going to deposit at Bard but defer then attend this other school for a semester)
Yes, contact ASAP! It may not be too late.
Though, I’m fairly certain you cannot attend another institution while deferred at Bard, or any school.
If Bard doesn’t accept you taking your spot back I would not try to transfer again. Pick a school and finish up.
Call them now. So what if the deadline passed? They can say, “Sorry, no.” But that is the worst outcome.