wording when expressing interest in program

[Tallulah]

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I know there have been tons of posts on wording but I had a specific question. If you tell a school that right now they are your "top choice" is that as final sounding as "I am ranking you number 1". I chose the wording because it was stronger than "I am ranking you highly" but not as explicit (or so I thought) as "you're my number 1 program". But maybe I'm splitting hairs. I just wanted to give myself some room so that if the day before the list goes out, I move program number 2 to number 1 I don't come off as a total douche. As I am writing this, this question is sounding somewhat asinine but oh well.
thnx

 

[OldPsychDoc]

You're welcome.
Thanks for sharing. 🙂

 

[atsai3]

It's not an asinine question but it does demonstrate a remarkable degree of paranoia consistent with many of the other postings on SDN. If you change your mind last minute, then you change your mind.

-AT.

 

[kugel]

It's not an asinine question

Are you sure?

Either way, Prog Directors are people, and they know applicants are nervous, and that applicants are making their rank list based, in part, on guesses about what program directors are thinking. I've never heard of any program dropping someone because of this kind of miniscule syntactic issue.

You're not being vetted for the Supreme Court. Relax.
Unless you forgot to pay taxes on your domestic employees. Then you're screwed.