<p>What exactly does one say in a letter asking to withdraw one's application? Is this ok? </p>
<p>Thank you for taking the time to process my application. I have been admitted to Stanford through the Early Action program, and I plan to matriculate there in the fall. I would like to withdraw my application from [college]. I apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.</p>
<p>Anything I should add?</p>
<p>No, that's perfectly fine.</p>
<p>why apologize for any inconvenience? I don't think that is necessary. Isn't this expected from some applicants?</p>
<p>No comma after "Early Action program" but otherwise fine.</p>
<p>The apology is not required but is a note that is both graceful and gracious.</p>
<p>is there any deadline to send them? Or is it just ASAP?</p>
<p>err... TheDad, I think there is supposed to be a comma. Compound sentence and all. If she were to take out the second I, she could lose the comma. Agree with the apology being gracious.</p>
<p>Sorry to invade this thread, but: can I fill out the "EA Acceptance of Admissions" form that comes with the acceptance package and then attach my personal note? I sincerely wanted to go to the EA school I am withdrawing from...but...I just love my ED school more.</p>
<p>Wouldn't it be prudent to wait on withdrawing apps after receiving an EA acceptance? One has until May 1 correct?</p>
<p>On commas ...</p>
<p>"I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out."
Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>For what it is worth, based on my short experience, it seems that high school teachers would INSIST in seeing the additional comma while college professors would PREFER to eliminate it. In this case, I would recite the sentence outloud and see if marking a pause of one-two seconds helps the delivery. My personal preference: no second comma.</p>
<p>I should know the answer to the comma question, as I just read the pertinent chapter in Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Maybe I was laughing too hard for the rules to be able to nestle in my synapses. But I'm pretty sure that the accepted American usage is to leave that comma in</p>
<p>ALL the common writing handbooks I have used in teaching freshman writing maintain that a comma is necessary before a coordinating conjunction between two independent clauses. She should leave the comma in.</p>
<p>Catch-22 - if there's a form for indicating whether or not you're coming, it's enough to just fill that out and skip the note. The note is nice, but I wouldn't spend a large amount of time on it. There is no assurance that it will be seen by anyone who had anything significant to do with your application. It might be read by a secretary and just turned into a tickmark on some form anyway. If someone in the admissions office got involved with you personally (like an interview), you could send a note to that individual.</p>
<p>""I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out." -- Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>Xiggi wrote: "For what it is worth, based on my short experience, it seems that high school teachers would INSIST in seeing the additional comma while college professors would PREFER to eliminate it. In this case, I would recite the sentence outloud and see if marking a pause of one-two seconds helps the delivery. My personal preference: no second comma."</p>
<p>Xiggi, any high school teacher that insists on adding a comma to that Oscar Wilde quote is wrong. There is only one subject. The sentence is not a compound sentence consisting of two independent clauses. It is one independent clause with a compound participial phrase. No comma necessary. </p>
<p>Marlgirl's sentence does have two subjects (I and I), is a compound sentence and requires a comma. She could rewrite it without a comma: I have been admitted to Stanford through the Early Action program and plan to matriculate there in the fall.</p>