<p>anyone else??? i have sent them an email but they are on break till the 5th, when i go back to AA. so it's a waiting game but i'd like to know.</p>
<p>Kelsmom - although i know WMU is not a ND/UM caliber of school, my issue is that i sent my grades in on the 20th, a saturday and they were closed then. so my feeling is they could have made a decision before my grades were received since the letter i received was dated on the 22nd... and also i know students who were accepted from Holy Cross from indiana with lower stats then i have across the board. i can say for a fact that WMU has far better academics then HCC. I really just want to know if they give me a legitimate reason for a denial - maybe there is some unknown thing on my record that i can explain. and as expected my family is quite upset - primarily bc i was denied and secondly bc i am going to UM - not that UM is bad, i really like the school a lot and the kids there too - but when you have parents and grandparents who are quite involved in notre dame and even with a 3.84 from the WMU Honors College and an athlete i am still denied. at times it is discouraging...</p>
<p>It never hurts to try and appeal, although I wouldn't necessarily get your hopes up. Several years ago when I was applying to colleges I appealed the rejection from a small liberal arts college that I was very surprised I didn't get into. I sent the school a nice letter with my accomplishments since my application, and to my surprise, they called me a couple weeks later and said they'd decided to accept me. I didn't end up attending the school, but I would have if I hadn't gotten off the waitlist at my first choice a week later.</p>
<p>Appeals are usually most successful when you have new and relevant information to add to your application. I'd won a couple of awards and made honor roll at my high school since applying, and they mentioned that one of the awards was a big part in them deciding to change their minds.</p>
<p>This is the first private college I have heard of that entertains appeals. In your case with parents and grandparents actively involved, give it a go through them. Have the individual most involved with the school contact admissions and the alumni office. If they have been generous donors add the development office. Of all the admissions decisions I've seen turned around over the years, alumni children with at least median stats have the best chance. You seem to fit that bill.</p>
<p>Huh.. I got wait listed and eventually accepted for entrance into BC with a 4.0 gpa taking regular classes and having just finished organic chem, anat and physio, genetics, physics in ONE semester.<br>
I am bilingual..getting to trilingual which has a lot of hooks attached, had good extracurricular and extra recommendations and won and was nominated for more than one department award. My essay was written in 1 day.. and wasn't the best but..
So I am not sure why you are surprised..no offense intended but ND is a competitive school.</p>
<p>Well, i was accepted to BC and GT last year but after talking with my parents i decided that if that amount of cash was going to be dropped on education it would be ND - or else i was footing the total bill.</p>
<p>Wait did you say that ND processed your grades on the 24th and you heard back the 26th? Well obviously they didn't get to see your 3.84 in such a small window of time so you would have reason to appeal. However, I agree with most of the above, UMich has truly given you a great opportunity with a full ride in financial aid and a transfer acceptance.</p>
<p>i'd feel the SAME way if i was rejected for USC. especially more so because its my dream school. dont settle for a school you dont want to be at, you'll only regret it.</p>
<p>although i do agree umich is good, but for me i fall in the same boat. I applied to USC, UT, and Rutgers. i know UT and Rutgers are good, but they dont attract to me the way USC does. call them up and ask them what went wrong and that you put yourself on track since last year to be a very good transfer candidate to ND. ask them if they got your grades and if not present them new information that may sway their judgement. </p>
<p>as for your major, kudos. </p>
<p>I'm a Molecular Biology major with a Chemistry minor, and i know the encumbering workload these majors demand.</p>
<p>that is kinda my feeling on it all. And as much as i love ND, i also love the fact of not having to make my parents dip into their savings to pay for school. The office opens at 8am so i'll give them a call in the morning and at least get my foot in the door with any form of an appeal. I have been told there is no process and yet i have a friend who did it last year - he was turned down, but was accepted this year - so i will get an answer from that. Once i know the reason i be better able to gauge my ability to appeal if i even can. thanks for the input.</p>
<p>Applying to USC in high school for freshman year, I got rejected even though everyone was completely shocked and thought I should have gotten in, my college counselor was pretty dumbfounded. I appealed and got in. I personally think what happens is that they have so many applications to sort through that no doubt people are going to slip through the cracks. I basically wrote a letter sucking up, like I want to go to your school so badly, I'll definitely go if you accept me, etc. And then sent a photography portfolio that I hadn't actually included in my original application. Truthfully, I think that was all just kind of a formality, and they basically just dont want to say i'm sorry we made a mistake last time, and instead are now "newly convinced."</p>
<p>So in short, go for it. What harm could it do?</p>