<p>Haha, quite similar to another thread. But i'm curious as to what people have to say about this one. </p>
<p>BTW im not appealing ne admissions descisions myself, just curious because a lot of people who get denied just say, "I'll just appeal it" or watnot.</p>
<p>I'm currently appealing a decision to the University of Florida. TWO of my cousins actually got in there on appeals. Maybe I can make it three?</p>
<p>I'll have to admit though it's very rare for a decision to be overturned; there usually has to be new information to supplement your old application (which I have for my appeal).</p>
<p>From what I heard, more than 50% of appeals result in acceptance, but this is because in more than 50% the rejections appealed are due to parts of application missing, mixed up, misunderstood, etc. Like improved SAT scores that never made it to the file, best letters of recommendaion lost, etc.
Usually GCs would contact colleges before the appeal, and if the rejection was not due to a likely error, they would discourage students from appealing.</p>
<p>Citymom, how could you possibly find a statistic like that? </p>
<p>It is not in the interest of any college to publicize the data that would be needed for such a figure.</p>
<p>Probably the best appeal is when a college (some state colleges do this) basically guarantees acceptance to residents with certain gpa and SAT and those requirements are met and applicant doesn't get in.</p>
<p>As far as I remember I read an article that included data from several schools. I see no reason to hide these data. The theme of the article was that appeals are rare, and very few get in through the appeal process, and that you have to have serious reasons to appeal. But what striked me, is that % were very high.
What I know from peope (mostly non first-hand), the successfully appealed cases were always following very odd rejections at safeties.</p>
<p>Only certain schools will consider appeals. For example UCs allow a denied applicant to appeal provided that the appeal is based on new information that was not considered in the original application. On the other hand, many high-end privates such as HYP do not allow appeals. Decisions there are final.</p>
<p>I got into McGill on appeal. I asked if I could send them the manuscript of my science fair project that got me to the International Science Fair, the Dean of Science read it, and offered me admission.</p>
<p>We know someone who successfully appealed a denial from UC Santa Cruz, and did very well there. Also know of someone (second hand but reliable) who appealed and was accepted at USC.</p>
<p>if harvard allowed appeals EVERYONE would be appealing--especially kids with helicopter parents</p>
<p>I know someone who got rejected from UCLA and appealed. He now attends there and is doing quite well. I never obtained the details of the situation, but I know he won the appeal.</p>
<p>A student of mine was denied entrance to UCSB. She appealed and was accepted. Way back in the day I was denied admittance to a teacher prep program and accepted to a far more prestigious one. I appealed because the lesser school had the added attraction of a boy and was admitted.</p>
<p>I got in through appeal, but it's because they had lost/hadn't gotten (somewhere there was a mix up), my SAT.</p>
<p>If I get rejected from the University of Washington, I intend to appeal because (not to be immodest), but there is no reason why I shouldn't make it.</p>
<p>My English teacher told us a story about a pair of twins who both applied to Sarah Lawrence, first choice. He said that they had nearly the exact same SAT's, GPA, activities, neither interviewed, but only one got in. The counselor was upset and kept pressing SLC to give an answer, and finally they basically said that admissions was a crapshoot, and gave the other twin an acceptance, but by that time they'd decided to attend another school.</p>
<p>many of my friends won UC's</p>
<p>two girls both won appeals to Santa Barbara and Davis
a guy won an appeal to Berkeley</p>
<p>i know a guy last year who got into UCLA and Duke but got rejected from Berkeley. He appealed, and then got in. Berkeley told him he'd been "wrongfully denied admission". however, the guy's at duke this year, and he really likes it.</p>
<p>A very smart student who tried to transfer from a California community college was at first denied admission to UCLA. She appealed (we wrote recommendations to support her appeal) and her transcript was re-evaluated and she was admitted to a different major. It turned out that her original major which was psychology would have taken her three years to complete. She was redirected to history, for which she had adequate lower division preparation, and she happily graduated from UCLA two years later. I do not think the additional recommendations were really necessary. She was a straight A student from high school through community college. The appeal process is there to alert the university to take another look.</p>
<p>what's with Harvard? b/c of the butlers?</p>
<p>I was rejected ED from a Haverford. I realize that they received far more qualified applicants than they had spots to offer and that their tendency is not to defer, but I felt as though I WAS/AM a very qualified candidate and also an unusual one. I have new material, as well. </p>
<p>Obviously <em>I</em> think they "made a mistake" because I'm well-rounded, etc and would make a positive contribution to Haverford's specific environment, but in all honesty, I highly doubt they overlooked anything/made a mistake that would qualify as out of ballpark of normal for admissions at a tiny, competitive LAC. Is there any point in appealing?</p>