I am recieving mails from University to accept offer

[Abhinav Asthana]

Hi everyone,

                      I was offered fully funded PhD position in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Houston on 27th February 2020. I have not yet recieved results from other universities where I had applied for PhD positions and waiting for those results. But I have recieved two mails for each of the last two weeks to accept the offer of PhD position at University of Houston even though the graduate coordinator said that the last date to accept the offer of PhD position at University of Houston is 15th April 2020. What should I do ? Should I accept the offer of PhD position from University of Houston and not wait for the results of other universities.

Regards

[CozyD]

If you're still waiting to hear back from programs you might prefer, don't accept until April 15th.

Send them a polite and clear email saying that you are excited to be accepted but are waiting to hear back from other programs before making a decision.

The whole point of the April 15th deadline is that you get to wait until then to make a decision.

One reason they probably want to know is so they can offer that spot to someone else if you're not accepting. It helps them if they can offer that spot to someone else before April 15th, after which that person is more likely to have already accepted a spot somewhere else.

If for some reason you are waiting to hear back from programs you're probably not interested in anyway, then maybe you should accept the offer you got and withdraw your other applications. That could help all the schools make their decisions about who else to accept.

Sometimes you can also piece together that the schools you're waiting on aren't actually going to send out any more acceptances. Like, sometimes people have info they share on these forums. If that's the case, you might go ahead and accept the offer.