Can I decline my interview offer 1 day beforehand?

If you find interviews stressful why on earth would you turn down the chance for some interview experience where you don’t care about the outcome?

Do the interview, know that the results don’t matter and instead of stressing just focus on improving your interview technique and resilience.

The worst case scenario is that you get rejected for a course you wouldn’t accept an offer for anyway and have a chance to practice your technique.

As someone who is also a very anxious person I wholeheartedly agree with the person above - unfortunately interviews are something that you will have to deal with at various stages in life, so any experience you can get where there is less pressure because the outcome doesn't matter so much will be hugely valuable and give you the chance to work out what exactly it is that you find stressful/difficult so you can work at it for the future.

Between now and then I would say do your best not to think about it and distract yourself with something that you enjoy - I always find that the more I think about an interview the more stressed I get.

Genuinely thanks for the response, but wondering if you still stand by that given the context above? I have a lot of interview experience and have dealt with far more pressure, and generally am not too phased by them. But I just don't see the point at this particular stage?

You can never have too much interview experience.

What if this other uni ends up being your insurance? (In some cases it makes sense to firm and insure the same grade requirements) What if you don't end up at your firm or insurance and the interview puts you in a good position for a place there via clearing? What if they make you an offer lower than the requirements because you perform well at interview?

Worst case, you miss one days school which you should have been planning for since the invite in any case.

If you've already made you mind up not to go that's fine, but it makes the thread a bit redundant.

I see your point, it does sound like you have a lot going on at the moment and it does sound like this interview is unlikely to be useful for you, but I of course do not have much context on your life so only you can decide what's best for you 🙂 i do just want to point out that this close to the interview it's unlikely that anyone else will have the chance to take your place, but I also don't think it's necessary to do it anyway out of principle if it won't serve you.

Thank you, I'm grateful for the reply. I'm referring to Imperial so almost certainly no point in putting it as an insurance unfortunately. I applied there for 2 courses, one with lower grade requirements, so the reason i'm being so adamant is a) because I think I have a good shot at the other course (more useful to me in any case) and b) i'm just exhaustedddd

But yes, the responses have spurred me to suck it up and do the interviews + associated online tasks.

You can never have too much interview experience.

What if this other uni ends up being your insurance? (In some cases it makes sense to firm and insure the same grade requirements) What if you don't end up at your firm or insurance and the interview puts you in a good position for a place there via clearing? What if they make you an offer lower than the requirements because you perform well at interview?

Worst case, you miss one days school which you should have been planning for since the invite in any case.

If you've already made you mind up not to go that's fine, but it makes the thread a bit redundant.

sorry this is irrelevant to the origional q but in what case would you firm and insurance unis with the same requirements??

I know, pretty much the only reason I've decided to go for it is that it seems so rude to turn down the place after confirming a week ago & I'd feel awful if I ended up messing up plans that the admissions team had presumably sorted for the online group tasks etc.

sorry this is irrelevant to the origional q but in what case would you firm and insurance unis with the same requirements??