<p>This question may seem ridiculous but in all seriousness would it be inappropriate to call and ask the admissions why you were rejected, if there was anything specific about your application that made them deny you. I am just overly curious</p>
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<p>I had a friend who did that after being rejected ED…wanted to know why/if anything was amiss on the app</p>
<p>Did they call or email? Was the college offended/ how did it go? </p>
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<p>I think i would want to know why too if i was rejected. But then there could be ALOT of reasons why if someone gets rejected. They probably won’t go in detail but make an overall statement that pretty much sums it up; "The applicant pool was too competitive and that they can’t admit everyone and this person wasn’t competitive enough. "</p>
<p>So it is worth a shot to ask if there was anything specific? </p>
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<p>They won’t tell you anything specific.</p>
<p>Most schools will not tell you a specific reason, any more than a prospective employer would tell you why they did not offer you a job.</p>
<p>Are your grades and test scores in the top range for that school? Were you competing for a spot in a competitive major? And even so, sometimes it is a crap shoot on who gets in and who doesn’t,</p>
<p>If you give your stats and the program, I am guessing that some of the more experienced parents out here could tell you the likely reason(s) why.</p>
<p>I know a parent that called UMass Lowell last year to ask why his son was rejected and they told him his SAT scores weren’t high enough. So it probably can’t hurt.</p>
<p>I thought colleges do hollistic evaluations… Why would they simply say “your SATs weren’t high enough”? =/ so SAT does matter a lot in college apps.</p>
<p>If you’ve already been rejected, what do you have to lose? The worst that can happen is they won’t tell you anything.</p>
<p>@lilmelonred Not ALL colleges do holistic evaluations. In fact, most schools are public and rely on some form of auto-admission for certain score cutoffs, with only less competitive applicants falling to the holistic process.</p>
<p>At the more competitive colleges this is a waste of time. Can you imagine how many calls they would be fielding and researching if 10,000 people called knowing that they would get useful information? At less selective non-holistic schools, there may be a set GPA or ACT that needs to be met for admission and they would share it. Nevertheless, with a rejection notification in hand do something productive and just move on. It wasn’t meant to be.</p>
<p>At selective schools, you won’t hear anything concrete. Because **you likely weren’t rejected for a concrete reason **other than what they told you: they liked others’ applications more than yours and there simply isn’t enough space to admit everyone they’d like.</p>
<p>What more is there to know? Really?</p>
<p>You can ask your guidance counselor, perhaps they could find out for you or would know based on your qualifications.
In the case where the test scores are inadequate, you can answer that question yourself by looking at the school’s Common Data Set, section C.
Otherwise, especially at a selective school, you might be just as “good” as the kids that got in, but they can only take a small percentage of the ones that are “good enough”. It’s like a big game of musical chairs.</p>
<p>Schools don’t have a list of reasons to reject you-- most competitive schools are looking for a really good reason to accept you. If you didn’t get in, it wasn’t one specific thing that wasn’t strong enough-- it was that, as a whole, you weren’t strong enough.</p>
<p>(The parallel I’m thinking of here is that on a paper, you don’t start with a hundred and have points taken off. You start with a zero and earn points. Similarily, you earn a spot with positive traits-- you’re not rejected for a deficiency in one.)</p>
<p>First of all, you won’t get an answer for many of the reasons mentioned. Second, you won’t get a specific answer because then schools would be inundated with appeals arguments based on specific answers when in all likelihood you were rejected for a number of reasons. Third, schools won’t give you an answer because there are just enough whiney pains-in-the-butt who would sue them.</p>
<p>Finally, and to my mind most important, of what possible value is this information? Unless you got rejected everywhere you applied and are going to reapply next year how would this information help you? Even if you did reapply a year later you’d be judged on what you did during your gap year so there’d be no guarantee that this year’s explanation would help you next time. The information is worthless. </p>
<p>You got rejected. Time to move on.</p>
<p>succinct. comprehensive. what more can be added? Great post vince</p>
<p>It depends on the college that you applied to.</p>
<p>So a few years ago, my D applied to a summer program that I didn’t think would be that competitive. At some point, she hadn’t heard anything weeks after she was supposed to, so I called and the woman said what’s this B- on her Q1 report card. I said, oh, she’s brought that up, do you want me to send an updated report card? She said definitely. So I did. A day later, my D got the email that she was admitted. </p>
<p>If the school isn’t overly competitive, meaning that most people get in, I think they would tell you why and tell you what you need to do to reverse the decision because they WANT to admit you. At highly competitive schools, it’s really hard to find a reason to reject most applicants, so if they managed to decide to reject you, you are a “problem solved” and you won’t find out anything nor have any appeal.</p>
<p>The school is is Bentley my stats are posted in that forum, I just feel like my stats match up with most of the ones that was accepted. I just want to know if it was my essay since it is a bit controversial </p>
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