when should you accept your conditional offer?

Hi,

The question is in the title.. Could you please give me your views on this?

I have a conditional offer from Cambridge, where the application deadline (and hence the results) were the earliest. I do not yet know my results for any other unis (Oxford's deadline was a month later for instance, and all the other unis are either rolling admissions or even in January!)

So with Cambridge:

'Q: When should I accept my conditional offer?

A: You should only accept your conditional offer once you have decided that you wish to accept a place at Cambridge. You may still have offer conditions outstanding at that stage. If you have received conditional offers for more than one course at Cambridge, you should only accept one of them. You may use your self-service to accept an offer, or you may write to us to confirm acceptance.'

But they also write that 'if you do not respond, we will assume that you do not wish to accept this offer'.
(No date specified by which to respond..)

So do I respond and say that I accept a conditional offer, but maybe even if I met all my conditions, I may choose to take up a place at another uni (that might give me more financial help), would I then withdraw it?? Or do I just not respond at all until I find out more about the finance side?

Could someone please help me with this?

Thanks very much in advance!

Reply 1

rottcodd

Accept it straight away. If you change your mind and end up going somewhere else, then you just contact them to say you will no longer be taking up their offer.