Hey everyone,
I wanted to see if there is a set procedure for letting schools know your decisions. For example, what is the time deadline? 5pm? 2pm?
The reason I ask is my situation. I have two active offers, and two wait-list spots. I would like to hold out for one of the wait-list spots because you never know. Maybe at 5pm that wonderful email comes in. But I also do not want to wait until it is too late to accept an active offer in-case the professor I will be emailing / calling goes to bed or is not available.
In addition, since I have two offers, I am worried that if I accept one and deny the other, the professor at the school I accepted won't receive my email on time and I will lose the spot and deny the other, leaving me with nothing. I do not want a repeat of what happened to the Arizona person. Clearly these offers are highly contingent.
What is the real deadline here? What should I do?