<p>can you appeal if you got put on the waitlist?</p>
<p>aihara: Yes, you can appeal transfer admission. I faxed my appeal 2-3 days after my online status changed from deferred to deny. I think the fax probably got out before the actual mailed letter of rejection even reached my house. The point is, make it quick. I didn't hear anything back for about 2 months I think.</p>
<p>Niihla10: Unless they waitlisted you and didn't deny you until like june (basically just after they've finished the whole freshman application process) then I don't see why you couldn't. Even if they did deny you very very late, you might still be able to appeal. </p>
<p>Bottom line I guess is call the admissions office if you fall into that sort of grey area. They won't bite, I promise. They answer questions you'd never think they would, and you get answers quick!</p>
<p>Wait..so do you have to wait until you get offically denied before you appeal? or can you appeal now when you're on the waitlist?</p>
<p>I don't know what you'd be appealing if you weren't yet denied. As far as i know you can appeal only a rejection, not a decision to waitlist. Even if you did decide to try and send them something to push you off the waitlist and into the admit pile, they would not review it, no matter what it was. Who does and does not come off the waitlist depends on academic credentials and essays alone (i.e. everything they already have and nothing else).</p>
<p>Heres the link to the waitlisted students FAQ where I got that info: (<a href="http://www.oar.uiuc.edu/future/faq/freshmen_wait.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.oar.uiuc.edu/future/faq/freshmen_wait.html</a> )</p>
<p>yeah thanks i saw that. this isn't for me..its for my sister who is kind of clueless..so i guess she'll just have to wait it out</p>
<p>where do we get the address to fax or mail our appeal to?</p>
<p>^call them and ask. It's possible it's different for each appeal. As a transfer student I was applying for immediate entry to both the university and the college of communications because i had the 60 credits necessary to be part of that college. So, my appeal went to the college of communications. Yours, on the other hand, may go to your college or the university office of admissions.</p>
<p>I'm convinced getting them to recognize you is a big part of an appeal. If they tell you to fax it to your college, call your college and ask for somone who is involved with admissions. Then ask that person for the fax address, let them know it'l be on its way shortly, and get that person's name so that each additional time you call you can ask to speak to that exact person. I'd say after 4ish calls I made getting the address, telling them the fax was coming, checking back to see if the fax had been recieved, and finally asking whether or not I would even be notified if they rejected the appeal (the answer they gave me is yes, they'd tell you either way) the person in my college's admissions office knew my name. that's huge.</p>
<p>kr thanks for all of your help to us.</p>
<p>Any suggestions in what i put in my letter.</p>
<p>I know they screwed up my ACT's, but anything else?</p>
<p>Well it was alot easier for me to get the fax number than you i just called undergrad admissions and got it well i guess when i call to make sure it was recieved ill give them my name but i dunno if that will make it known.</p>
<p>It's really different for each appeal. I was rejected because my essays did not show my desire to study my major. I personally felt they did, but I was aware I'd made a pretty abstract connection between my time as a college radio dj and the study of advertising. So, I explained it more appropriately in the appeal. What you say in your appeal may be different. There is no specific list of things everyone should tackle in the appeal. Make them know things you don't think they know yet, and SHOW PASSION.</p>
<p>I really don't think it was my actual letter that got me in, I think it was making them know me and that I was absolutely dying to study advertising there. Like I said, I called many times over a three month period to ask questions...probably more than four, I bet it was somewhere around 5-6. I had two of my college professors hand-deliver letters of recommendation which means admissions at the college of communications heard my name twice in one day and saw my professors felt strongly enough about me as a student to help (they don't take letters of recommendation...I knew that even before I sent them...I sent them not so much for what was inside the letters, but for the significance of having the two professors drop them off).</p>
<p>Tackle the ACT matter if you feel it's important. Show desire for your major. And make sure they are intelligently written. Zero typos, no syntax errors, and very well edited. I had to re-write my letter 4 times before it was right. </p>
<p>Finally, check out my posts in this other thread about appealing: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=276258&highlight=appeal%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=276258&highlight=appeal</a></p>
<p>does your decision status change when they recieve ur appeal or only after they make a decision on it?</p>
<p>There is no computer field that shows an appeal is pending. There is one for "Petition Denied." Thus, the only change you can get via on-line is the result of the appeal: either a change to Admit or an addition of Petition Denied.</p>
<p>Also, as to some things mentioned in earlier posts: As to GPA and whether it is low, the more important issue is class rank which UIUC generally uses instead of GPA and having a high test score does not mean it will make up for a low class rank. Also, getting a merit award by having a 1500 SAT (without writing section) and only a 3.1 GPA does not mean the 3.1 GPA must automatically be fine; there are a number of merit awards that depend on test score and not GPA. UIUC can withdraw an admission if you do poorly senior year. It does not happen often but it has happened and usually as a result of D's and F's. Note, there is one situation mentioned earlier in this thread where it is likely to occur: getting an F in senior English; the reason is not just the F but because the student will have failed to have completed the required 4 years of high school English needed for admission.</p>