LOI Question

[camtheram1815]

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At the risk of appearing overly neurotic and air-headed, here it goes:

I've been accepted to a school already that I'm happy with. However, I'm on the waitlist at two other schools I would prefer (cost being the priority) that also happen to be higher rank and are open to updates.

If I send an update/interest letter to both waitlist schools (e.g. activity update, then: I really liked your school for X, Y, Z, here's why I think I'm a good fit, etc...), is there a chance that any of these three schools (accepted one included) could talk to each other/see I sent a interest letter to a different school? Is this a thing? Are there any potential negatives I'm not thinking of, like coming on too strong? Or am I overthinking this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Papa Oso]

As long as the letter is well written and has the right school name, it won't really hurt (most likely won't help). I would (and have) sent a LOI to my top choice school on the off chance that it actually will get me accepted. Will it? Almost certainly not, but you have nothing to lose aside from a bit of time and ink/paper. Just do it my friend.

 

[Goro]

Take two of these, please:

At the risk of appearing overly neurotic and air-headed, here it goes:

I've been accepted to a school already that I'm happy with. However, I'm on the waitlist at two other schools I would prefer (cost being the priority) that also happen to be higher rank and are open to updates.

If I send an update/interest letter to both waitlist schools (e.g. activity update, then: I really liked your school for X, Y, Z, here's why I think I'm a good fit, etc...), is there a chance that any of these three schools (accepted one included) could talk to each other/see I sent a interest letter to a different school? Is this a thing? Are there any potential negatives I'm not thinking of, like coming on too strong? Or am I overthinking this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[camtheram1815]

Take two of these, please:

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Ha. well I did say at the risk of appearing overly neurotic. Better safe than sorry in my book.

I'll go ahead and send the LOI's.

Thanks