When is it too late to cancel an interview?

[yoni]

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Would it be obnoxious to cancel an interview i have at g town in 2 days? I already got accepted to a state school I really like and all the commentors say that if you don't have a real reason for wanting to go to G town you should'nt even bother b/c they weed out the applicants who are ambivilant. i don' think i can say g town is honestly one of my top choices with a straight face. any advice? thanks.

 

[Rendar5]

I'd suggest cancelling the interview, obnoxious as that may seem. In the long run, you don't want to waste your time, their time, or potential applicant's time.

 

[evines]

If you've already been accepted somewhere you know you like more, don't go. Who cares what G-town thinks?

 

[yoni]

Originally posted by evines
If you've already been accepted somewhere you know you like more, don't go. Who cares what G-town thinks?

yes, but now i'm thinking its good for experience. I have a interview a week later at a school that is one of my top choices. perhaps its would be good to go to the g town interview just to stay fresh. any more thoughts?

thanks,
yoni

 

[XCanadianRagwee]

Just a hunch...

I think it'd be too late to cancel an interview the day after you attended the interview.

 

[crazy250]

Originally posted by yoni
yes, but now i'm thinking its good for experience. I have a interview a week later at a school that is one of my top choices. perhaps its would be good to go to the g town interview just to stay fresh. any more thoughts?

thanks,
yoni

depends on you. if you're 100% sure you're not going to ever attend g town, then why waste the money to travel there just to practice. you can stay fresh many other ways like practicing with someone else. if money is not an issue, then go. it never hurts to have more acceptances.

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by crazy250
depends on you. if you're 100% sure you're not going to ever attend g town, then why waste the money to travel there just to practice. you can stay fresh many other ways like practicing with someone else. if money is not an issue, then go. it never hurts to have more acceptances.

roger, plus you might be pleasantly surprised.

 

[VienneseWaltz]

I had a similar situation last year. 3 days before an out-of-state interview, I got into a school I knew I would attend over school X. My rationale was that I was wasting everyone's time (including my own--it was a 6-hour car trip away) by going to the interview, and that there would be another applicant who would be more than happy to take my place and could do so on short notice (this was a state school--not my state, though--with a largely local applicant pool). I checked with my pre-med advisor, who told me that I should cancel.

I would have been hesitant to cancel on a school with a national applicant pool, however, as finding a replacement interviewee on short notice is more complicated. I have heard of people getting yelled at by admissions officers (e.g., Stanford), but I never heard from the school (not even an acknowledgement of my cancellation/withdrawal).

I wouldn't apply to G-town for residency, though. 😉

Congrats on your acceptance.