<p>So I got rejected from Washington university and I called the admissions to find out whethere I can appeal or not. I can and the process is that I have to email the dean directly and "make my case". </p>
<p>The only thing I can think of is that I really want to go there and my grades in high school were bad becasue made the mistake of not caring, but since I am going to be learning what I love I will actually want to learn and CAN keep up with the course load.</p>
<p>I feel like this is a cliche reason and this is all that I can think of.</p>
<p>can you guys help me come up with some reasons that I can use in my appeal that dont sound cliche and are actually good.</p>
<p>In-case you are wondering I can keep up with the course load. </p>
<p>Also I am a first time freshman applying for fall 2014 quarter. </p>
<p>Sorry @PigisStupid . Don’t know much about you and your stats or background but a cursory search showed a GPA of 3.2 for you. That in itself is not a showstopper but after actually getting a rejection seems to me as a show stopper something they may not be willing to look past. If you had any extenuating personal circumstances which may have led to your low gpa and/or sat/act scores and how you overcame them is what i would write about - long shot. Good luck</p>
That puts you in a tier below almost every other student who applied.</p>
<p>Don’t waste your time. You got rejected for a reason. Appealing will only show them how entitled you are. It wouldn’t surprise me if the dean auto-forwards emails with the word “appeal” directly to his trash folder.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but it’s the truth. High school (e.g. a bad first semester GPA) is the proper time to have an epiphany about how important your academic future will be. You have no control after receiving a college rejection letter. It’s too late.</p>
<p>Check out the impressive stats of those who are waitlisted. If you feel you are equal then go ahead and appeal, but nothing you have presented so far supports you doing so.</p>
<p>What is good is that you have learned a valuable lesson early in life. The lesson is: You can say and promise to do almost anything, but in most situations, people are going to use your past performance to measure your ability. Go ahead and try to appeal if you really want to, but it might just be better to accept that you have learned a good lesson and move on. WUSTL is not just looking for admits, they are looking for future graduates. It sounds like (from your own admission) your high school stats do not demonstrate that you can handle the coursework. Note-- I didn’t say that you couldn’t handle the work at WUSTL, just that your previous stats do not demontrate this. They are not going to admit you over the several hundreds (if not thousands) of students who have applied that have already established that they have the discipline to withstand the curriculum. Many with stellar high school records did not receive acceptances. As another poster suggested, take a look at the stats of those that were waitlisted. (At my son’s high school several outstanding students with great academic records, high test scores and ECs were waitlisted.)</p>
<p>My advice to you would be to move on and concentrate on the schools that admit you. There are great programs and smart students at every university. Stop expending energy on WUSTL-it is just not going to happen. Good luck to you–it is never too late to continue (or start) your career as a serious student. You will just have to do it somewhere else.</p>