Declining Offers/Withdrawing Applications Thread

[leveller]

Since people are asking here: if anyone's planning to decline an offer from Michigan, PM me

[brookspn]

Same for anyone planning on declining Rutgers!

[Jespersen]

And if anyone’s thinking about declining UCLA or Notre Dame, please PM me.

Edited March 26, 2019 by Jespersen

[unanschaulich]

I'm getting in on the act: if anyone is planning to decline Columbia, please PM me.  

[Duns Scotus]

I'm in, too: If anyone is planning to decline UConn, please PM me. I'd appreciate it! 

[fromthearmchair]

Just declined Rice's offer--good luck to whoever's next!

[nxr9]

To continue with recent thread developments ... if anyone is planning to turn down Indiana, please PM. 

[The_Last_Thylacine]

What have we become?

[brookspn]

Declined UT Austin and removed myself from the waiting list at Stanford. 

[dy77706]

17 hours ago, fromthearmchair said:

Just declined Rice's offer--good luck to whoever's next!

Can you tell me your AOI? I'm waitlisted but really want to get in

[fromthearmchair]

@dy77706 PM'ed you.

[armchair_revolutionary]

I removed myself from the waitlist at Michigan State. Given my place on the list it may not be too helpful to others, but who knows!

[Eternity]

On 2/19/2019 at 10:09 PM, lurkingfaculty said:

I would just email the director of admissions directly and tell them that you have a different offer that you will definitely accept. (There is probably a way to do this online in some of the systems, but I would say even if you do that still email the director of admissions, since they might not notice that you've done it in the system, etc.--at least in our system we still have access to withdrawn applications and they look just like regular ones.)

In addition to the reasons given above, this helps admissions committees A LOT! If you withdraw your application, then we can offer the spot we might have offered to you directly to the person who would be first on the waitlist, instead of waitlisting them. (Or, if we were on the fence about you, we can stop worrying about you altogether and just move on.)

I've already sent an email, but haven't received any reply. Does that matter? Is there anything else I need to do? I fell a little nervous…

[philosophaurus_rex]

Declined at NIU. I was offered funding, so hopefully this will help someone who is waitlisted for funding, too. 

[philosopuppy]

Just declined funding for an MA at SFU. Hope it helps someone!

By the way, is there anyone on here who is sitting on one of the nice packages from GSU? I'm apparently at the top of the waitlist for it, and it's the only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger now (freeing up other offers), so I'm curious as to what said person is thinking, if they're on here & willing to share.

[DoodleBob]

13 hours ago, philosopuppy said:

Just declined funding for an MA at SFU. Hope it helps someone!

By the way, is there anyone on here who is sitting on one of the nice packages from GSU? I'm apparently at the top of the waitlist for it, and it's the only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger now (freeing up other offers), so I'm curious as to what said person is thinking, if they're on here & willing to share.

Hi Philosopuppy, I don’t have an answer to your question, but I am curious how you learned your position on the waitlist. 

 

Was it stated in your waitlist email? Did you ask? From my memory, Tim O’Keefe stated he would not let prospective students know their position on the waitlist or their chances of getting in. 

 

Thanks!

[Prose]

just declined

[VentralStream]

2 hours ago, Prose said:

just declined

Which one?

[ContractMonsterSlayer]

20 hours ago, philosopuppy said:

Just declined funding for an MA at SFU. Hope it helps someone!

By the way, is there anyone on here who is sitting on one of the nice packages from GSU? I'm apparently at the top of the waitlist for it, and it's the only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger now (freeing up other offers), so I'm curious as to what said person is thinking, if they're on here & willing to share.

Do you happen to be sitting on funded offers from Western Michigan or Toledo as well?

[akraticfanatic]

Just declined an offer from UC Irvine-- I was nominated for a fellowship, but unfortunately I don't know if that will stay within the department. Also removed myself from waitlists at UConn, UVA, and JHU. AOI is epistemology (secondary in social and political)

[Nothingtown]

Turned down MA offers from Wake Forest (bioethics) and Duquesne (philosophy). 

Those were hard emails to write. 

[SmugSnugInARug]

Just declined Western Ontario's Theory and Criticism PhD. (I know its not strictly philosophy, but its where a lot of people do Continental work, so just posting it here.)

[Stable_disposition]

Just declined an offer off the UT Austin waitlist and took myself off the list.

[armchair_revolutionary]

Declined an offer from Western Ontario's Theory and Criticism program. Like @SmugSnugInARug mentioned, it is a place where much continental thought is done so I think it merits posting here.

[VentralStream]

3 hours ago, Nothingtown said:

Turned down MA offers from Wake Forest (bioethics) and Duquesne (philosophy). 

Those were hard emails to write. 

You turned down the only acceptances you had? ?

 

edit: NVM

Edited April 1, 2019 by VentralStream