<p>Hello,
I am genuinely interested as to why i was waitlisted/rejected from some of my colleges because I assume these admissions officers should provide good insight since they have to be quite intelligent to be officers at the colleges i applied to.</p>
<p>Should I email and ask? I dont want to **** anyone off, nor do i want my wait list status to become a rejection for whatever reason.</p>
<p>I don’t think you should. They already have a lot of work to go through and asking why you weren’t accepted would probably make them ****ed off.Your gpa/sat/essay/ECs weren’t good enough for them and that’s why they didn’t accept you:/</p>
<p>Besides, it’s not like you can change anything now</p>
<p>Well, here the thing.
For example, I got rejected at UVA and waitlisted at Grinnell while i was accepted in Hamilton College.
Hamilton is a lot more selective, with higher ACT/SAT thresholds, etc.</p>
<p>So it makes me wonder, that is all.
I just feel like the information can help me strengthen my weak points in the future</p>
<p>Haha this is simple. The ones you were rejected, go ahead and ask. You have nothing to lose. But as for the ones you’ve been waitlisted at, don’t ask just to be safe. </p>
<p>But believe me, none of them will give you a straight answer.</p>
<p>I went through the same thing, but I think it’s best to just move on, don’t look back. Keep in mind only one or two people are reading your apps & you never know what they are looking for. And anyway, why would you want to change yourself just to conform to what some admission wonk thinks is important?</p>
<p>They won’t tell you anything substantive b/c they know someone can sue them. Ultimately, you’re wasting your time. Congrats on your accepts.</p>
<p>I agree ^
your best bet is to NOT contact them. first of all, it might be hard to find exactly who read your application and they probably won’t remember you (just because they’ve read soo many applications). They probably won’t even agree to do it because if they agree for one person, they’d have to do it for everyone.
If Hamilton is more selective, then you should be happy! Would you have gone to the other schools?
Also, there’s something different about each school, and so they all look for something else that’s beyond sat/gpas. maybe your ec’s or essay were good, but they couldn’t picture you at their school, or maybe someone just had more interesting ones.
I say be yourself. Hamilton obviously likes you (and congrats btw!) and you should like yourself too. Also, I believe everything happens for a reason~ maybe Hamilton is the perfect school for you and you wouldn’t have gone there if you got in to the other schools? Either way, it’s not worth your time (or the admission’s officer’s time).
Good luck next year!</p>
<p>Who isn’t genuinely interested in finding out why they were rejected? Even if a college accepts 30% of the applicants - do you think they have the time to research and respond to why the remaining 70% were rejected. </p>
<p>Even if they had the time and the inclination to do so - they would not do it for legal reasons.</p>
<p>No harm in asking. I doubt you’ll get a real answer. For UVA with all the apps they examine in that time they had, it’s a very quick decision. A lot of times, it’s that there are too many candidates that fit your “type” and they only take so many of them. They then look for other types.</p>
<p>Their response will be something canned like this: “This year we received a record number of applicants. Thousands of students applied for limited seats in admission. We review admission applications intensively looking at both personal and academic achievements. Unfortunately, competition is really tight for such limited space on a vast amount of great students who apply for admission.”</p>
<p>Were you in-state for UVa?</p>
<p>UVA is very competitive for out of state applicants. If you are out of state then you shouldnt be suprised you were rejected. Congrats on hamilton</p>
<p>siliconvalleymom, i was out of state.</p>
<p>Anyway, good answers guys.
Thank you very much!</p>