Hi all,
Following on from recent thread, my DD with mental health problems has decided to take a gap year. HOWEVER, this is the tricky bit, she has already accepted a university place and is due to start in two weeks!
She doesn't want to go there, full stop. Only chose that university as her tutors at college persuaded her to go local... She wants to completely withdraw the application.
She's much better now but needs a year out to just reset and get back on her feet.
DD will email university... but can anyone help with phrasing?? What should she put? Has anyone done something similar?
Reasons are:
- housing situation may change in the next few months (another issue entirely, she's commuting... may not be possible.)
- wants to live on campus
- is not currently in the right place to attend university and needs a break for MH issues
Also want to make it clear that she wants to withdraw application, not defer... she doesn't like the university. 
DD is perfectly capable of sorting it out herself but she's sending the email to admissions on Monday so has given me permission to see if anyone has any advice. Tricky situation... but better than her being miserable and missing out.
Also thanks to everyone else who replied to me last thread. 
And as not to drip feed, she can't move out this year due to only just recovering from mental health issues, she's been advised by doctors to stay home one more year. Currently, if she moves out I don't think she'd manage at all, she's still in the early days of being 'better.' Then she got miserable about not being allowed to move out, missing out on uni life, until she ultimately decided she doesn't want to go at all this year. I know she's an adult but she is/was mentally ill and it's not just me being a worried mother, her mental health team were also extremely concerned when she wanted to move out this September.
Thank you.