StressedPremeder Posted May 24, 2023 Report Share Posted May 24, 2023 I was very lucky to receive an acceptance to UBC and Ontario medical schools my this year. Initially, I was dead set on attending UBC and accepted their offer and paid my deposit. However, I got cold feet and accepted an Ontario offer so that I could have more time to make my final decision. I then remembered that one cannot hold two offers at the same time and decided to reject the Ontario offer by emailing the Ontario medical school. I have not paid the deposit to this Ontario medical school and have only held two Canadian medical school offers for a few hours. Will I lose my spot at UBC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GH0ST Posted May 24, 2023 Report Share Posted May 24, 2023 So let me try to understand things right since I'm having some trouble with your post... You got accepted into UBC first (congratulations)... you paid the deposit... you were "dead set"... But because you got "cold feet" you also accepted an offer from an Ontario medical school (congratulations again) but did not pay the deposit. You did this in an attempt to stall (which I really do not understand why since you could wait until the final second to accept the offer based on the deadline). I am assuming you didn't notify UBC of your other acceptance. You made up your mind shortly after and emailed the Ontario medical school to decline the offer. Where in this stream of thought would you lose the UBC offer? - G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StressedPremeder Posted May 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2023 Hi it is a very confusing stream of thought haha. Yesterday was the deadline to accept Ontario offers and I wanted to extend that to have more time to decide as I’m very indecisive. I never notified UBC about the other acceptance but do Canadian schools contact each other about accepted students? I’m scared I’ll end up losing all my offers as for about a 2 hour span I had accepted two schools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcccxz Posted May 24, 2023 Report Share Posted May 24, 2023 The schools do not communicate with each other. You should be fine as long as you don’t overthink it and end up doing something stupid like actually telling them you accepted two offers. Now, stop worrying and go enjoy your acceptance and summer. Edict 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearded frog Posted May 24, 2023 Report Share Posted May 24, 2023 Ontario makes you choose but there is no deadline between provinces... you could pay the deposit to one and get ready to matriculate but in theory could come off the wait-list elsewhere a week before starting and then bail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted May 24, 2023 Report Share Posted May 24, 2023 15 hours ago, StressedPremeder said: Hi it is a very confusing stream of thought haha. Yesterday was the deadline to accept Ontario offers and I wanted to extend that to have more time to decide as I’m very indecisive. I never notified UBC about the other acceptance but do Canadian schools contact each other about accepted students? I’m scared I’ll end up losing all my offers as for about a 2 hour span I had accepted two schools. Yeah you should be fine - also brings up an important point. Once you are accepted the schools generally aren't cruel machines waiting to crush your dreams ha. ( To be clear before they aren't cruel either....just indifferent - which is just a byproduct of 1000s of people applying which a huge number of great candidates.) Oh and congrats of course! Edict 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-D- Posted May 24, 2023 Report Share Posted May 24, 2023 I am aware of a situation happening many years ago. Student had offer at school A in province A and school B in province B. Accepted and held onto both offers up to orientation week. Ultimately rejected school B. They were furious, wanted student expelled. School A’s Dean allegedly smoothed things over, but was viewed as a serious professionalism issue… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edict Posted May 30, 2023 Report Share Posted May 30, 2023 I totally understand the stress, but don't worry you'll be fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted June 1, 2023 Report Share Posted June 1, 2023 On 5/24/2023 at 4:27 PM, -D- said: I am aware of a situation happening many years ago. Student had offer at school A in province A and school B in province B. Accepted and held onto both offers up to orientation week. Ultimately rejected school B. They were furious, wanted student expelled. School A’s Dean allegedly smoothed things over, but was viewed as a serious professionalism issue… well I mean yeah - they should have been furious. That compromises the school's ability to get their class filled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StressedPremeder Posted June 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2023 Update. I am fine! Though, both schools did almost (around 3 days) immediately knowing that I had accepted two schools. I had to clear it up with UBC and explained I immediately rejected my Ontario offer (at UofT). In other news, it's time to change my name from StressedPremeder to StressedMedstudent. glbro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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