Accidentally Accepted Offer of Admission...

kellybkk
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:36:17 +0000

It really doesn’t matter that you accepted. Think about this: when you are put on the waitlist at a college, that college always tells you to accept admission at another college to be certain that you have an option. If you get off the waitlist (and want to attend), the standard procedure is then to call the first college and withdraw your acceptance. Your situation is no different, either ethically or practically. Indeed, many large state universities will not allocate housing, or even put you in the queue for housing, unless you have accepted their offer. If you wait to accept their offer until late spring, you don’t get good housing. So people accept offers all the time, get on housing lists, and then wait and see what happens with their other college applications. If they get into a college that they prefer, they then simply withdraw their acceptance to the original college. It is truly no big deal and no college, after admitting you, is sending your name around to 3,000 other colleges so they can match you up and see if you’ve been admitted or not. There is no software to do this and it would be impracticable anyway (3,000,000 high school grads x 3,000 schools = 9 BILLION notices). I suggest doing nothing. You’re fine. Just withdraw if you get a better acceptance down the road.