LMAO, if you only got into these places, then maybe you shouldn't do a PhD. Pathetic

TPB: you are an idiot.

TPB: Will not attend but will decline until 04/15. If you only got WL a Econ PhD might not be for you ... Anyone who got accepted has the right to decline whenever they want.

went to visit day, just dropped myself from WL

Declined after these visit days

Declined these two. GL

Just decline. Good luck to WL

Just declined. Good luck to WL

I received an email to check the portal. The admission letter mentioned nothing about funding so I will have to email the department or possibly wait for a separate email but this late into the season I assume I was accepted from a waitlist and there is no more funding. I will be declining if no funding is offered.

Not to pile on here, but at this point there's very little reason to still have more than one offer. Most visit days have happened, and there's been lots of time to talk to faculty and current grad students. Figure out what your dominating offer is, reject the others, and sit back for the waitlists.

[Not Interview] TPB: I wonder how someone with such little sense of optimization got through Economics PhD at Cornell, Columbia and (prospectively) Duke in the first place

TPB: Just jumping into the convo, but you sound like an asshole. Why not do the introspection, figure out what you'll pick if you don't get Duke, and decline the dominated offers? It's not like you need to wait to figure this out.

Let this be the end of the convo here, but I think you may not understand what hypocritical means. I'm holding offers from schools that I would go to (or at least have to decide between going to) were I not to get into my most preferred school. I'm asking people who know they're not going to Duke to decline. I don't know that I'm not planning to go to the schools I'm currently holding. I would think an aspiring economist would easily be able to understand how this stuff works.

(Not WL) TPB: Isn't it a bit hypocritical to ask others to decline offers if you are holding more than one offer? Practice what you preach!

TBP: just curious, why you are holding offers from several Universities while waiting for waitlist decision from Duke? You would probably get off the waitlist if you will decline one or more of the offers you have, letting someone take this spot, and possibly free the spot in Duke for you.

Got waitlisted. Please decline if you don't plan to attend

Please, anyone holding onto Duke please decline if you're not going. I'm holding offers from Cornell, Columbia, and a few others I'd like to drop if I got off waitlist at Duke!

Just a common email telling me to check the portal. It takes me three months to wait for such an email??!!

Email to check portal service.