Waitlist Procedures - How Long to Respond to Acceptance Offer?

[PHD_applicant_2022]

Currently I’m at the top of the waitlist for a program. If I were to be admitted, how long would I have to accept or decline their offer? I know that April 15th is the deadline for those admitted in the initial batch of acceptances, but couldn’t find any information about when the second batch (waitlist) acceptances needed to inform schools by.

Thank you!

[PHD_applicant_2022]

Bumping this

[bayessays]

They will probably want an answer pretty quickly because they'll have to offer those spots to other people if you decline.  You aren't going to learn anything about the program in the next week that you couldn't learn otherwise, so I think they would expect you to be able to decide within a few days or a week.

 

[PHD_applicant_2022]

@bayessays- thanks for letting me know!