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Seniors, How You Leave Your Commitment Matters
You just committed to a school. Congrats. But right now there is something most seniors completely overlook that can actually affect their college experience before it even starts.
How you decline your other offers matters.
If you were admitted to schools you are turning down, some of those admissions officers sit on scholarship committees, graduate school boards, and fellowship panels you may encounter again in four years. Academia is a small world. Medicine is even smaller.
Here is what to do this week.
Log into every portal where you were accepted and formally decline your offer. Do not just ghost them. Do not let the deadline pass silently. Schools track yield data and your spot sitting unclaimed delays someone on the waitlist.
If a professor, interviewer, or alumni volunteer personally helped during your process at a school you are declining, send a short thank you email. Two to three sentences. No explanation needed. Just gratitude.
If you received scholarship money you are not using, decline it formally and promptly. That money rolls to another student, sometimes within days.
And if you are still on a waitlist somewhere and genuinely would attend, send a Letter of Continued Interest this week. Not next week. This week. April is when most waitlist movement begins.
What school did you commit to? Drop it below, let the community celebrate with you.
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Seniors, How You Leave Your Commitment Matters
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