Accepting an offer and then rejecting

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laplaceiitkgp
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Accepting an offer and then rejecting

Post by laplaceiitkgp » Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:27 pm

Can we accept 2 offers and then reject one of them later? Has anyone done this before?

zhangvict
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Re: Accepting an offer and then rejecting

Post by zhangvict » Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:38 pm

That sounds a little contradictory. Accepting entails a commitment to a contract of employment as a PhD student. It is never acceptable for university would accept a student and then reject them; why should it be asymmetric from the perspective of the employee?

Fw1812
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Re: Accepting an offer and then rejecting

Post by Fw1812 » Wed Feb 17, 2016 8:43 pm

Yeah this sounds like a terrible, awful, atrocious, redundant-adjective-inducing idea.

AMGMScrub
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Re: Accepting an offer and then rejecting

Post by AMGMScrub » Wed Feb 17, 2016 8:45 pm

I believe if you accept an offer, it's binding. When you want to accept another offer, you have to get a written release from the first school. I don't know what the name of the document that states this, but you can easily find it.

leviethai
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Re: Accepting an offer and then rejecting

Post by leviethai » Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:40 pm

No matter whether you can do it or not, you should have not done that.

Ivanjam
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Re: Accepting an offer and then rejecting

Post by Ivanjam » Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:54 am

laplaceiitkgp wrote:Can we accept 2 offers and then reject one of them later? Has anyone done this before?
The answer is yes, provided that you do so in writing prior to April 15: http://cgsnet.org/april-15-resolution



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