<p>Is this something people do (politely of course)? I'm kind of afraid to do it, but if this is something that is normally done, I would really like to know why, because I honestly thought I had a good chance of getting in.
thanks in advance.</p>
<p>you can always send in a petition. Then they overlook your application.</p>
<p>By petition do you mean an appeal? Because I don’t think I have any exceptional circumstances to warrant that. What is the format of a petition?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t expect to get any better information from the response to that kind of question than the original rejection letter had. </p>
<p>Have you been admitted somewhere else?</p>
<p>So far only to my safety schools:( I have yet to hear back from some more schools, but now I’m afraid I’ll get rejected from all of them.</p>
<p>And yes, I suppose you’re right.</p>
<p>I don’t think most schools would want to say why a student was rejected. </p>
<p>Even if they didn’t mind telling, I also don’t think they have the extra staff to spend time to research the “why” and then get back to you.</p>
<p>I imagine that state schools, especially, wouldn’t want to say why. It could lead them vulnerable to a lawsuit…Suppose they said, you were rejected for having a 3.3 GPA in the required college prep classes. But, then you found others that were accepted with the same grades. It could be a problem.</p>
<p>That said, I have heard of High School Guidance Counselors being told such things as…the student took Statistics instead of Calculus his senior year. He didn’t take the most rigorous curriculum. (A GC told a rejected Georgetown applicant that in 2007.)</p>
<p>Ok, thanks.</p>