sweetiemb

I had already made up my mind where I'm going to school X, and school Y invited me to a group interview. Info on school Y stated the minimum qualifications needed (gpa, GRE, and the like) to be considered for acceptance, and one of the qualifications was attending and completing the group interview. Since I had already decided to attend school X, I told school Y that I am not attending the group interview, that I'd already made up my mind where to go, and to please withdrawal my app. School Y got back to me, telling me thank you for letting him know and good luck with grad school. Well, it came to my surprise a few weeks later when I received a rejection letter in the mail from school Y. I'm not hurt by it or anything, but moreso annoyed with the whole notion of "You can't reject me 'cause I'm rejecting YOU." :roll: Unless it was a miscommunication or something.

The scenerio--I applied to 4 different schools--counseling master's programs in each of those, and one of them a gerontology certificate program to supplement my counseling education (for the other 3 schools, you add the certificate on after being enrolled in a master's or doctorate program, but for this one school, you can be accepted to the certificate program independent of being enrolled in a master's or doctorate program). I got 1 reject and one program I'm withdrawing my application from, so those 2 schools aren't in the equation here. The problem lies in the other two schools, however--for school x, I got accepted into their gerontology certificate program but had not heard a thing from their counseling master's program. For school y, I got accepted to their counseling master's program--the program really appealed to me, I liked the staff and the current graduate students I met during my interview, and there's a high likelihood I can get financial aide at school y, so I accepted their offer. Here's where the trouble comes in--for school x's gerontology certificate program. I just got sent a letter of acceptance with it saying "we're very glad to have you as part of our cohort for Fall 2009" and that I should talk to my advisor about classes to take for the fall. There's nothing on there saying I have to get back to her in regards to whether I accept or decline the offer, but rather the assumption that since I've been accepted, I will attend. I know that this program has rolling admissions, and that I've already decided not to go to this school based on the fact of not hearing a thing from the school's counseling master's program and being given a better offer at another school. I got the letter of acceptance to the gerontology certificate program from school x about a month and a half ago. I'm just concerned because I read that once you've accpeted an offer, you're legally bound to that school/program--but this letter of acceptance seemed to assume that I'm attending with it saying "we're very glad to have you as part of our cohort..." meaning that maybe I was already added to the list of students. I just wrote her an e-mail right now telling her that I will not be attending school x because of not hearing from the counseling master's program at that school and getting a good offer from school y. I'm just concerned that with her assuming I'm attending, is there some legal action that can be taken?

I'm wondering about some stuff in regards to the in-state versus out-of-state tuition as well, and now that it could be possible to not be a resident of ANY state... Right now my husband and I live in and are residents of Wisconsin. I got accepted into and will be attending grad school in Minnesota, and we plan to move there and settle down, my husband finding work and all. I know that WI and MN have a reciprocity agreement, so of course I'm going to apply for reciprocity to avoid out-of-state costs (with reciprocity, I'll pay about the same as a MN resident). I know, though, that once my husband and I move, we don't become MN residents for 12 months (I know it would be tricky with me being a student the whole time, but I know that if he worked full time for 12 months, that would qualify him as a resident, and I'll be married to him, so I'd qualify too), but what happens to our WI residency? Sorry, I don't know how this works--do I lose it and am not a resident of any state and pay out-of-state tuition?! That would suck! Or do I keep my WI residency and then after 12 months of being in MN switch to MN residency?