<p>Nice typo on decisions, I know. Leave me alone!</p>
<p>So has it ever happened? Has anyone ever been declined for EA or a rolling ED and somehow had their application reconsidered and reversed?</p>
<p>Don't worry, I haven't been rejected from somewhere and am trying to convince them to reconsider. However, a friend of mine was declined at an honors college (accepted to the university though), and another declined by an ivy, and both of them talked to deans and are having their application re-reviewed.</p>
<p>I figured this was something that neverrr happened, particularly at an ivy, but here's two people who may have a chance. So, does this happen, ever?</p>
<p>I would image the re-reviews are purely to make sure nothing was missing from the file. So the Dean makes sure the file was complete, that it was in fact read, that the Reader was operating in good faith, and affirms the denial. It’s a procedural review, not a judgement review.</p>
<p>At highly selective colleges, a borderline admit is reviewed by a 2nd reader. If that 2nd reader is also borderline, it goes to committee for a 2-3 minute discussion.</p>
<p>if you know someone who was actually declined instead of deferred EA/ED then having their app reviewed is just a formality to make sure it was done correctly (eg. someone else’s essays weren’t mistakenly put in their file instead of the ones they wrote). but to think that means they have another “chance”, in the sense that they were on the fence and with a bit of luck the decision will go the other way, I’d find that hard to believe.</p>
<p>Since borderline admits already get a 2nd reader, then a committee if necessary, it’s ALREADY been reviewed, from a judgement point of view. There are three logical categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>If it’s a flat denial by the first reader, it wasn’t viable.<br></li>
<li>If it is denied by the second reader, it was looked at twice – that’s sufficient corroboration</li>
<li>If it was denied in Committee, it has therefore been denied 3 times.<br></li>
</ul>
<p>I know a girl who was deferred early action, then later denied in regular admission by a small private university. She then flew to the college and personally handed the dean of admissions a written letter of why she wanted to attend the school and how important this was to her as well as some things she had been improving on. She received an acceptance letter in the mail a week after she got home and is now a student at the school.</p>
<p>However, I think it is very uncommon for something like this to happen and usually when an appeal is successful there are some inside connections helping the student out. Also, keep in mind that this was a small private university so things would probably be handled differently here than they would at a larger or more prestigious school.</p>