http://www.llm-guide.com/board/4491 en Re: aCCEPTING TWO OFFERS - LLM GUIDE Discussion Board Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.llm-guide.com/board/4491/last#4491 Hello All, I guess a lot of academically promising ppl would encounter this problem since multiple applications are rife (and smart, too) these days. The way I have decided to go has been based on what I perceive to be the unfair negative bias against ppl from my country, Nigeria. In all my applications, I have tried to be as honest and straight forward to the schools as possible. Indeed multiple choices of admission arose for me as well. When a particular school told me that the Admissions Committee was yet to sit, I replied by stating that my primary concern for attending any of the universities where I had already been admitted would be funding. This latter school gave me a fellowship spannin a tuition waiver! Nevertheless, in all the letters that I have written to them, I have maintained that funding is still my primary focus and my acceptance would be premised in that regard. So they realize the terms on which I've made my acceptance. Schools which are fastidious about acceptances say so. If you can keep those terms, then do so. If you can't keep them then I don't think you should accept cos 'you'll keep a lot of ppl out while not goin in yourself'. Where the school is silent about multiple acceptances (especially where they ask you to accept now, though they keep the luxury of determining scholarship applications in late June/July), then I think you have a prerogative of accepting as many openings as you get and makin a final choice (a.s.a.p.) based on what you think to be your primary consideration. Otherwise, u might be shooting yourself in the foot, for no good reason. Best of everything!