Getting off waitlist when you're already accepted?

[shaggy alfresco]

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What's the process if you hold an acceptance and then a waitlist school wants to offer you an acceptance? Do they contact you or the other school first, asking if you'd be interested or do they just accept you?

 

[alwaysaangel]

What's the process if you hold an acceptance and then a waitlist school wants to offer you an acceptance? Do they contact you or the other school first, asking if you'd be interested or do they just accept you?

They'll contact you and the school you're holding an acceptance at. Letting you both know that they are extending an offer of acceptance to you.

The school will give you an amount of time to make your choice and withdraw from one (usually a week or so, but as the summer gets later the time will be shorter).

The school you are holding an acceptance at may also contact you and ask that you decide ASAP.

 

[shaggy alfresco]

I'm asking because I just got accepted off a waitlist even though I am already going to a school. Now the school I'm going to hasn't had any contact with me and I was under the impression that they'd contact me before offering me an acceptance so I was just wondering if something was weird.

 

[alwaysaangel]

I'm asking because I just got accepted off a waitlist even though I am already going to a school. Now the school I'm going to hasn't had any contact with me and I was under the impression that they'd contact me before offering me an acceptance so I was just wondering if something was weird.

You are "already going to a school?" As in already started orientation/class?

I don't understand your question. Who hasn't contacted you? How do you know they accepted you if they haven't contacted you to offer you the acceptance?

 

[shaggy alfresco]

You are "already going to a school?" As in already started orientation/class?

I don't understand your question. Who hasn't contacted you? How do you know they accepted you if they haven't contacted you to offer you the acceptance?

Sorry I meant that since it's past May 15th, I withdrew my other acceptances (except one). So until yesterday, I was holding one acceptance. A new school accepted me today - however, the first I heard of it was their snail mail today with all the forms regarding the acceptance. I was told by someone (and this may be wrong) that before doing that, the school you are waitlisted at would contact you asking if you want to be taken off the waitlist or something. I didn't get that, which I found odd so I was just asking.

 

[RogueUnicorn]

within those forms is surely a letter where you indicate whether or not you accept the spot off the waitlist...

 

[Seven of Nine]

Sorry I meant that since it's past May 15th, I withdrew my other acceptances (except one). So until yesterday, I was holding one acceptance. A new school accepted me today - however, the first I heard of it was their snail mail today with all the forms regarding the acceptance. I was told by someone (and this may be wrong) that before doing that, the school you are waitlisted at would contact you asking if you want to be taken off the waitlist or something. I didn't get that, which I found odd so I was just asking.

what the person may have been referring to is that some schools contact interviewed applicants on their hold/deferred/standby/whatever-they-want-to-call-it list when the school goes to make their waitlist. applicants, such as yourself, are not always outright rejected or accepted following an interview and are placed in this murky unknown. some schools don't formally make their waitlist until may 15th or the week before. they contact the applicants who have been assigned the hold status to see if the applicant wants to be placed on the waitlist (some applicants have been accepted into schools they liked more and intend on attending, some applicants haven't gotten around to withdrawing their applications from places where they still have an open file, some applicants would rather withdraw and reapply in a future cycle, etc). they confirm you want to be waitlisted to make sure everyone's on the same page and you're likely to attend if accepted. this confirmation enables them to avoid extending acceptances to people who don't want them (which avoids inflating their accepted:matriculated stats and also targets those vying for an acceptance asap).

some schools just waitlist you whether you like it or not.

so this person with whom you spoke, meant "if you would like to be taken off the waitlist" as in "remove yourself from consideration."