DollyM Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Okay so DD was admitted to several colleges and finally/recently made her decision. So far so good. I told her to phone the admissions counselors at each of the schools she was declining - and tell them - and ask if she needed to do anything else to "withdraw her application." All of the counselors thanked her, said they'd make a note, and wished her well. So in today's mail is this odd form from Butler Univeristy in IN along with a cover letter which states, in part, "We have received notification of your decision not to attend Butler this Fall .... Enclosed find an Admitted Student Evaluation ... It is VITAL that you return it within the next two weeks ... this will be the final documentation BU will require of you ..." The form is a lengthy double-sided affair which asks for a bunch of statistical data about her, including the names of all the other schools she applied to and where she decided to go instead (info they already have.) Would you encourage your rising-college-kid to complete and return such a thing? Maybe it's my independent homeschooled mentality that says, 'none of your business and you can't REQUIRE anything of us ...we've already told you all you need to know ...' So, what do you think? Trash it? "File" it? Complete and return it? Get over it? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Sounds like a form invented by whomever in Admissions is required to keep track of who declines admittance and why...so they do not have to dig up all the info themselves. I'd ignore it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In The Great White North Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 They have absolutely no hold over you (unless they're paying tuition at the school she is going to:001_smile:.) I'd put it in the circular file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
periwinkle Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 however it was a rather short, one-page deal with only 3 or 4 questions. Ds did fill it out and return it, but only because it took about 2 minutes of his time (plus the school is my alma mater). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwen in VA Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Dd received several of those. They only had a few questions though -- basically what college are you attending instead of going to OUR college? Then there were a few questions about why you chose the other college. We will be filling a few of those out this year -- several of the colleges ds applied to were fantastic and treated him wonderfully. We feel badly that he can't accept them all! We want them to know what a high opinion we have of the colleges. And two colleges offered such abysmal aid that we want to tell them about it! We figure that if we can help the colleges by giving them feedback, we are helping the whole admissions process for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DollyM Posted April 12, 2008 Author Share Posted April 12, 2008 To those who said, "circular file" AMEN. ;) To Gwen who wanted to give well deserved postive feedback: I concur. In this particular case, the school didn't do anything particularly noteworthy for DD, and they consistently mispelled her name, so we didn't have the warm fuzzies for this school that we definitely had for a couple of the others. I think if this form was brief/short, I'd encourage DD to simply comply, but it's long and tedious with teensy little boxes to check and the whole thing makes me tired LOL. I was interested in learning that many of you at least got a similar vehicle from other schools. We placed a "thanks but no thanks" phone call to three other schools and that seemed to be sufficient for them ... this last school (who sent the form) was coincidentally the stingiest with scholarship ... and now they have the noive to want all this .... data :tongue_smilie: :lol: I'm gonna toss it. Thanks, all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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