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Ok to contact other schools when you get an offer?

GoodLuckBB

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Hi All,

In general, if your offer from School A is expiring soon, but your top choice is really School B, which you are still waiting to hear back, is it okay to send an email to School B rushing them a little bit? I know in a job search, it is totally fine to "leverage" your exploding offers, but not sure if it works the same in grad school applications.

In my case, the school I wanted to email explicitly said they won't release decisions before a certain date. Would you just wait in this situation?

Thank you so much and best of luck !
 
GoodLuckBB said:
In my case, the school I wanted to email explicitly said they won't release decisions before a certain date. Would you just wait in this situation?
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That's your answer right there. This usually applies to programs that are B-school based and have several rounds of deadline and release all decision on a set day (MIT, CMU, etc).
Other programs are much more flexible since they release decision throughout.
 
Andy Nguyen said:
That's your answer right there. This usually applies to programs that are B-school based and have several rounds of deadline and release all decision on a set day (MIT, CMU, etc).
Other programs are much more flexible since they release decision throughout.
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Oh. I thought maybe in the case where the student has an exploding offer, they would be flexible. Thank you so much Andy!
 
Andy Nguyen said:
You probably mean "expiring offer". I would be afraid to receive anything "exploding". ;)
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sorry. "exploding offer" is more an industry word i guess. It is very commonly used among job applicants and HRs:)
I will make sure not to use it in emails to grad schools!
 
o_O Looks like the expiring offer is more like an "imploding offer", if you dont act on it soon :P remember the old saying.. one in hand is better than 2 in the bush ! eat the birdie !
 
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