<p>OP, may I ask what other schools you were accepted/rejected from?</p>
<p>Rejected by the 3 ivies I applied to Harvard, Columbia and Cornell, waitlisted at U Chicago and got into NYU, Rutgers, Stony Brook, UC Davis and UC Irvine.</p>
<p>Based on your results, what in Harvard’s decision pattern is so surprising? Peer schools like Columbia and Cornell (with much higher accept rates) gave you the same decision. What, pray tell, could you base any appeal upon? Are you saying that Columbia and Cornell made the same error? Really?</p>
<p>As people have said, there is no appeals process at Harvard.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of kids taking a gap year and re-applying to the schools that rejected them the year before, and have never heard of someone getting in the next year at a school that rejected them (Hanna is the first exception I’ve heard of - perhaps he transferred, or did something unbelievable in his years away - be interesting to hear). If you hate all of the schools that have accepted you (and you have some nice options there), take a gap year and apply to some schools that weren’t on this year’s list.</p>
<p>And please bear in mind that it doesn’t begin and end with Harvard or the Ivy League. There are two people who work for one of my clients who went to “average” schools – schools that few people on this board have heard of – and one had earned enough to retire at 48, and the other at age 50. I also know a 34-year-old Rutgers grad who lives in a very low cost of living area who makes $400,000. I can keep citing examples like this, but you get the idea.</p>
<p>T26E4, I was not surprised by the outcome, I never said that, but I think if my SAT IIs had arrived on time for decision I might have had a higher chance, it wasn’t my fault that College Board delayed my scores, and apparently you did not bother to read all the posts in such a small thread, because if you did you would know that I am basing my appeal on my new SAT subject tests and my new SAT Reasoning.</p>
<p>OP–</p>
<p>Since you were rejected, there is simply no appeals process and any letter you send and any new information will not be considered. If Harvard were to allow an appeals process for you, it would have to potentially allow appeals for the 30,000 or so other rejected applicants, plus all waitlisted applicants would be furious that you were taken over them. </p>
<p>At U Chicago, as I mentioned before, you should include the change in your scores in a letter of continued interest, if you are interested in getting in off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Oh dear…</p>
<p>You would lose the appeal process over spelling. sorry.</p>
<p>I know someone who got in off wait list after letting them know he was planning to defer a year. He also called a lot! Really plead his case but if rejected, it’s done. Score improvement is the least compelling argument anyway…sorry</p>
<p>^But the person you knew was waitlisted. OP was denied admission. Two different issues.</p>