<p>Boston U was my first choice, but I got rejected and the explanation said:</p>
<p>"An unfavorable decision is never easily reached, and it is particularly difficult because of your family's association with the University."</p>
<p>I'm from South Korea, and I lived here for about 6 years now and my family do have a legal permanent residency and E-1 VISA.</p>
<p>and I got into Umass Amherst, UCR, UCI, UC davis, so I don't think my grades were the problem. also my essays were pretty good in my opinion</p>
<p>I am going to call the admission office and ask them about why my application was denied and how to appeal rejection, but before that does anybody know what that means?</p>
<p>It means that despite being a legacy or having a parent who worked at the university or having some other family connection with the university, you were rejected.</p>
<p>Just because your stats were good or were within BU’s range doesn’t mean BU had to admit you. Public universities admit students mainly based on students’ stats and states of residence. Private universities are more quirky. </p>
<p>It’s unlikely there’s any appeals procedure. Universities rarely tell students why they were rejected. You’d be wise to invest your time falling in love with one of the schools that accepted you.</p>
<p>yeah, they mean you were rejected despite some connection to the school, not because of it. Is one of your parents an alum? That sounds like a classic “sorry we rejected your kid, please make donations to us anyway.”</p>
<p>Sorry about the rejection…I’d move on to one of the other awesome schools that did accept you, and not get too hung up on BU. Their loss, someone else’s gain.</p>
<p>You’re South Korean and you only moved here six years ago?</p>
<p>How do you have any major “relations” to BU? I’m interested. Explain.</p>
<p>my family doesn’t have any relations with BU at all. my parents went to universities in South Korea, and neither of them works at BU since we live in California. I don’t think you guys are correct about the explanation. it didn’t mean that ‘despite of my family relations with BU’ but rather it meant that my family association caused the rejection.</p>
<p>also I’m not saying that BU should’ve accepted me because of my grades; I just mentioned that to prove that my grades were not the cause but instead it was my family’s association that caused the rejection. and I really have to go to Boston since almost none of the colleges that I got accepted doesn’t have astronomy major.</p>
<p>Maybe they confused your application with that of another student who did have a family connection with BU. Call BU and ask what they meant in the letter.</p>
<p>maybe yeah…I’ll call and ask to speak to the director of admissions. I still can’t think of a clear reason why my family’s association was the cause of rejection</p>
<p>While I don’t have any concrete explanation as to why you got a letter talking about your family’s association with the university, I also don’t also understand why you don’t take the clarification that the letter implies your supposed family association is a good thing.</p>
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<p>It is particularly difficult. What does it reference? The unfavorable decision. Therefore, it was difficult to make the decision because your family’s association with the university was a plus.</p>
<p>no, you got the message wrong;</p>
<p>‘and it is particularly difficult because of your family’s association with the University’
means that my admission was particularly difficult to accept because of a problem with my family’s association with the university. and again, my family doesn’t have any associations with BU.</p>
<p>Yeah dude this is simple sentence stuff from 7th grade (?). </p>
<p>“An unfavorable decision is never easily reached” There is one noun in there, decision. “It” is a pronoun and stands in for the only noun, decision.</p>
<p>We get
“and an unfavorable decision is particularly difficult”</p>
<p>Why was it difficult to reject you? “your family’s association with the university”</p>
<p>fender, i also think you’ve interpreted the sentence wrong.
consult your english teacher? lol</p>