How to Withdraw? Forum

[helpplease]

I was just wondering whether there was a special way to withdraw an application after being accepted or would I just email the admissions@___ email and let them know? I have a handful of law schools that I've been accepted to that I know I won't be attending forsure, so it's pretty selfish to not give that opportunity to another student.

Thanks everyone!

[ManOfTheMinute]

I was just wondering whether there was a special way to withdraw an application after being accepted or would I just email the admissions@___ email and let them know? I have a handful of law schools that I've been accepted to that I know I won't be attending forsure, so it's pretty selfish to not give that opportunity to another student.

Thanks everyone!

Embossed letter, overnight delivery.

[florida1949]

I was just wondering whether there was a special way to withdraw an application after being accepted or would I just email the admissions@___ email and let them know? I have a handful of law schools that I've been accepted to that I know I won't be attending forsure, so it's pretty selfish to not give that opportunity to another student.

Thanks everyone!

Embossed letter, overnight delivery.

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Also, an email should suffice.

[banjo]

You have to appeal your acceptance.

[helpplease]

You have to appeal your acceptance.

Troll -__-

[helpplease]

Also, I wanted to mention that withdrawing acceptances is something everybody should do. So many people are desperately waiting to get into xyz schools and you could be holding a spot at a school you could care less about.

Be considerate.

[banjo]

You have to appeal your acceptance.

Troll -__-

You caught me. The embossed, overnight thing is the real way to do it. But seriously:

RE: Last Name, First Name (LSAC # XXXXXXXX)

"Dear Office of Admissions,

Please withdraw my application from the class of 2016. Thank you. "

Also, before you withdraw, be sure that you cannot use an acceptance or financial offer from that school to negotiate with other schools.

[stillwater]

I withdrew via smoke signal and laser light show.

[Ramius]

I hear a Case Western applicant withdrew with letter cut-outs from Dean Mitchell's OP ED along with "you can never have my soul."

[mewalke1]

I hear a Case Western applicant withdrew with letter cut-outs from Dean Mitchell's OP ED along with "you can never have my soul."

Wow if thats real thats awesome.


I have withdrawn from a few schools. Just an email with a thanks but not thanks will work. And I am withdrawing because I am waitlisted at a few places and if you know you're not going you might as well let them know so people on the waitlist can....maybe...get in sooner!

[liupang]

Honestly, someone should make a template on TLS to show the rest of us how to withdraw with class. It's just kind of hard for me to simply say "thanks but no thanks"

[jrf12886]

"Thank you for the offer to study at [X] Law School. After careful consideration, I have decided to attend another school. Sincerely, [you]"

[helix23]

I withdrew via smoke signal and laser light show.

[ironbmike]

You have to send them a withdrawal deposit.

[mewalke1]

Honestly, someone should make a template on TLS to show the rest of us how to withdraw with class. It's just kind of hard for me to simply say "thanks but no thanks"

haha yup! just trying to help

[Rlabo]

Wait, can you not use an offer you've withdrawn from as negotiation material? I mean certainly I understand that they are no longer active offers, but the schools that your negotiating with don't (shouldn't) know that, and I'm just scanning over an original document. Any knowledge on this would be appreciated.

[ironbmike]

Wait, can you not use an offer you've withdrawn from as negotiation material? I mean certainly I understand that they are no longer active offers, but the schools that your negotiating with don't (shouldn't) know that, and I'm just scanning over an original document. Any knowledge on this would be appreciated.

Ready to be a lawyer? Write like one. Don't write "I am considering an offer from..."

Write "I have received an offer from..."

[nba101790]

Wait, can you not use an offer you've withdrawn from as negotiation material? I mean certainly I understand that they are no longer active offers, but the schools that your negotiating with don't (shouldn't) know that, and I'm just scanning over an original document. Any knowledge on this would be appreciated.

Ready to be a lawyer? Write like one. Don't write "I am considering an offer from..."

Write "I have received an offer from..."

Exactly.

You can passively note for comparison's sake that you've received offers of xyz from schools abc. I wouldn't use a withdrawn offer as a direct matching request.

[cwid1391]

Wait, can you not use an offer you've withdrawn from as negotiation material? I mean certainly I understand that they are no longer active offers, but the schools that your negotiating with don't (shouldn't) know that, and I'm just scanning over an original document. Any knowledge on this would be appreciated.

I think that would be pretty duplicitous. That offer is no longer on the table, therefore telling another school that they need to compete with it seems... sketchy.

[TripTrip]

Some AdComms have been known to call and check with the other school (see Michigan).

[ironbmike]

Some AdComms have been known to call and check with the other school (see Michigan).

Just use past tense.

[mehh]

I withdrew via smoke signal and laser light show.

+1

HAHAHAH same.

[Rlabo]

Wait, can you not use an offer you've withdrawn from as negotiation material? I mean certainly I understand that they are no longer active offers, but the schools that your negotiating with don't (shouldn't) know that, and I'm just scanning over an original document. Any knowledge on this would be appreciated.

I think that would be pretty duplicitous. That offer is no longer on the table, therefore telling another school that they need to compete with it seems... sketchy.

Yes its slightly sketchy but a reason I can see this occurring in the first place is that an applicant has a deposit deadline due on an offer and is still waiting to hear back from other schools that would be more conducive. In this case, would you suggest depositing at every school that you have a good bargaining chip with, even if you don't plan on going there? that might be ridiculously expensive for no reason. The offers did exist, and it does show what you're worth, or what another school was willing to give you. I don't see why someone in that predicament would not use them.

[TripTrip]

The offers did exist, and it does show what you're worth, or what another school was willing to give you.

But the fact that you did not accept the offer proves that it was not worth more to you than your offers at other schools.

Scholarships are not about "what you are worth to other schools." It's about what that particular school is worth to you. (At least that's how the adcomms will see it, regardless of whether you view it another way.)

[deuceindc]

Yes its slightly sketchy but a reason I can see this occurring in the first place is that an applicant has a deposit deadline due on an offer and is still waiting to hear back from other schools that would be more conducive. In this case, would you suggest depositing at every school that you have a good bargaining chip with, even if you don't plan on going there? that might be ridiculously expensive for no reason.

Ask for an extension, tell them "I'm still waiting on some applications, it's out of my hands". If they won't give it to you, ask for more merit scholarship money. If no amount of money will get you to go there, you shoud've known that and used this offer already, or applied to better schools to use for scholarship leverage.

The offers did exist, and it does show what you're worth, or what another school was willing to give you. I don't see why someone in that predicament would not use them.

From a school's perspective, this looks like a blatant misrepresentation of your current options. The assumption in citing an option is that it is viable; otherwise, it would not be an option, as options represent a group you're choosing between. Why should they match an offer that you can't choose? If this is really about demonstrating your value to another school, tell School A that School B's deposit deadline has passed and that you didn't pay it.

I understand that there is a clear difference between "School B has offered me a full ride" when, in reality, they have never done so and "School B has offered me a full ride" when they did and you let the deadline pass without depositing. And to be honest, you could probably cite a lapsed offer without getting caught - and if you did get caught, it would probably be a violation of the privacy of your application. However, that wouldn't stop LSAC from fucking your shit up so royally that you'd never, ever be admitted to any law school. Not worth the risk, IMHO.

If you want to keep using a scholarship after its deposit deadline, you should pay the deposit.

Getting back to the first point, it would behoove someone in this situation to play the schools with early deadlines against each other, at least a bit in advance of those deadlines. Then you have one, maybe two offers worth depositing for and actual valid offers to use against other schools. Pick schools with cheap deposits and focus on them. And again, ask for extensions.