Forgot to withdraw after accepting ED- now what?

[Anonymous]

If a college was really concerned about wanting to know if a kid is withdrawing an app so they could offer that spot, they would make it easy for the kid to inform. Sure some care but the vast do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS has really messed up and is panicking. He forgot to withdraw 1 application after he got into his ED. He took care of all of the others but somehow missed this one. He only realized when they sent him an acceptance email.

He has already committed to ED and will attend. But he is now terrified they will rescind his offer.

I said he needs to contact the school ASAP and withdraw now. I think he should also talk to his counselor at school in case there is anything else to be done.

Is there anything else he can do to fix this? And is he likely to lose his ED school for this?

Don’t mention to counselor. Just decline admission. It happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just send a certified letter and/or an email to the admissions office stating that you are withdrawing your application because you have been accepted ED to another school.

Public universities are not a concern if applying as a state resident under ED rules.

This. It’s incredibly easy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He’s totally fine. Seriously, calm down. This is a non-issue. He just needs to go into the portal where he was accepted and decline the admittance. He doesn’t need to talk to his counselor or anyone else. Just take care of it.

There is no secret network where schools are communicating with each other to say who still an application in place after getting an ED admittance.

This but it really sucks when people do this. Even if there were 19 other apps, this is a simple task and should have been done.

It doesn’t really suck. It’s a small mistake that doesn’t hurt anyone. This admissions and decline will either be part of the decline that the institution expected, or it will mean that the spot goes to someone on the waitlist who really wanted it.

It hurts someone. The school’s algorithm set forth a specific number of kids to admit each year. His failure to withdraw his app before decisions means someone else got waitlisted who would have been in (if the school waitlists). That’s exactly what happened.

[Anonymous]

My son had a similar situation. He also got in ED to a school and went in and immediately withdraw every application he could online. He met with his school counselor to find out how best to withdraw from IU. His counselor sent him an email address to send an email withdrawing his application. He did this. He still ended up getting into IU. He did everything correctly, and they still admitted him. He just emailed them again to decline. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He’s totally fine. Seriously, calm down. This is a non-issue. He just needs to go into the portal where he was accepted and decline the admittance. He doesn’t need to talk to his counselor or anyone else. Just take care of it.

There is no secret network where schools are communicating with each other to say who still an application in place after getting an ED admittance.

This but it really sucks when people do this. Even if there were 19 other apps, this is a simple task and should have been done.

It doesn’t really suck. It’s a small mistake that doesn’t hurt anyone. This admissions and decline will either be part of the decline that the institution expected, or it will mean that the spot goes to someone on the waitlist who really wanted it.

It hurts someone. The school’s algorithm set forth a specific number of kids to admit each year. His failure to withdraw his app before decisions means someone else got waitlisted who would have been in (if the school waitlists). That’s exactly what happened.

And someone will get off the waitlist who otherwise wouldn't have.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't matter at all, OP.

Just send an email to admissions office.

No worries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He’s totally fine. Seriously, calm down. This is a non-issue. He just needs to go into the portal where he was accepted and decline the admittance. He doesn’t need to talk to his counselor or anyone else. Just take care of it.

There is no secret network where schools are communicating with each other to say who still an application in place after getting an ED admittance.

This but it really sucks when people do this. Even if there were 19 other apps, this is a simple task and should have been done.

It doesn’t really suck. It’s a small mistake that doesn’t hurt anyone. This admissions and decline will either be part of the decline that the institution expected, or it will mean that the spot goes to someone on the waitlist who really wanted it.

It hurts someone. The school’s algorithm set forth a specific number of kids to admit each year. His failure to withdraw his app before decisions means someone else got waitlisted who would have been in (if the school waitlists). That’s exactly what happened.

And someone will get off the waitlist who otherwise wouldn't have.

No, you don’t know that. Because they use an algorithm that gives a guesstimate as to who will accept and who won’t. So if they get more acceptances to the offers of admission than they expected, then the waitlist may not move.

[Anonymous]

OP - first, totally no big deal. Sounds like you all handled it well.

Second, I just have to say that I love how you didn't get defensive re all of the negative comments. It's so over the top. Your reply just addressed the issue in a friendly manner and ignored all of the rest. I have a hunch you're a mom who role models the right behavior and your kid really made an innocent mistake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - first, totally no big deal. Sounds like you all handled it well.

Second, I just have to say that I love how you didn't get defensive re all of the negative comments. It's so over the top. Your reply just addressed the issue in a friendly manner and ignored all of the rest. I have a hunch you're a mom who role models the right behavior and your kid really made an innocent mistake.

-1 I don’t see the comments as over the top. Things can be forgotten but it doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences. In this case, there was a consequence but not to her child, which is the only thing she was worried about. Including comments about how it affects others may prevent this from happening in the future, esp if the excuse is that it’s so “hard” to decline when there isn’t a single button to do so.

[Anonymous]

One of the lessons here is that schools should make it easy for students to withdraw their applications. My DC got in ED a few years ago and I was surprised at how many schools didn't have fairly straightforward and accessible withdrawal processes. Macalester was one exception - they not only had really obvious spot on the portal to withdraw, they also emailed previewing EA notifications coming soon and asking applicants to withdraw if they were no longer interested/available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the lessons here is that schools should make it easy for students to withdraw their applications. My DC got in ED a few years ago and I was surprised at how many schools didn't have fairly straightforward and accessible withdrawal processes. Macalester was one exception - they not only had really obvious spot on the portal to withdraw, they also emailed previewing EA notifications coming soon and asking applicants to withdraw if they were no longer interested/available.

Omg please.

Steps

1. Google “[name of school] admissions contact email”
2. Copy email address
3. Open your email account and open a new email to write
4. Paste in the admissions email address from 2 above
5. Write a one sentence email saying you are withdrawing your application

[Anonymous]

If the request was to please let us know if you still want to be considered for a million dollars, you would be able to easily do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just send a certified letter and/or an email to the admissions office stating that you are withdrawing your application because you have been accepted ED to another school.

Public universities are not a concern if applying as a state resident under ED rules.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He’s totally fine. Seriously, calm down. This is a non-issue. He just needs to go into the portal where he was accepted and decline the admittance. He doesn’t need to talk to his counselor or anyone else. Just take care of it.

There is no secret network where schools are communicating with each other to say who still an application in place after getting an ED admittance.

This. If he’s panicking this much, is he ready to go away to school?!!