Waitlisted school wants to make an offer......maybe.

[nari27]

So I've been really wanted to get accepted to my #1 choice school. I waited patiently for their decision, but then got an aceptance from a state school. I needed to respond to my second offer by a certain date and let my #1 choice program know that. They put me on an "unofficial" waitlist and the April 15th deadlines passed. I accepted school #2 because I figured that if I didnt get accepted anywhere else, I would lost my only shot at grad school this fall. Today I get an email asking me if I was still interested and if I had accepted any other offers. I asked if they were still interested in having me as a student, but they said only if I hadn't accepted any other offers. Kind of pissed me off a little bit. They only contacted me after the April 15th deadline, what did they expect!? They're only gonna take students who didn't have any other offers or who held out for them? Had to vent, at least now I can focus on my new school and not stress over the other one!

[Eigen]

Because otherwise they're poaching off of another school, and that would earn them a bad reputation in the field?

I understand the frustration, but at the same time, I know we'd be pissed if another school e-mailed one of our students who had already accepted (after the 15th) to try to lure them away. And that's definitely not in the spirit of the CGS resolution.