Applicant's Maximum Time of Response to Acceptance Offer

[jae9970]

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I am in no way close to getting an acceptance any time soon, but i was looking through the MSAR and this question popped into my head

It said that for this particular school, the "Applicant's Response to Acceptance Offer - Maximum Time" is two weeks. WhaT? So when they offer an acceptance, the student has two weeks to respond or the offer is gone or something??

What if the students gets an offer from this school early, like January? What if he wants to wait for responses from other schools higher on his priority list??

 

[Depakote]

generally a response is some sort of deposit... refundable before May 15th.

You send them an acknowledgment that you've been accepted and a check for ~$100. If you get into a school higher on your list before May 15th, you withdraw and you get that $100 back.

 

[lord_jeebus]

The key is that you can hold multiple acceptances until May 15, and it makes sense to hold them all until scholarship and financial aid offers all go out (unless you would not attend one school, even with a full scholarship, over another school at full price).