<p>My first semester grades for this year (my senior year) were average because I was working full time so my dad said if I got rejected I could appeal my admission if I made straight As this semester, which I'm very capable of.
Has anyone ever appealed? Did you win?</p>
<p>Where did you apply to? The few stories I’ve heard around here of people appealing decisions (successfully) typically wasn’t an increase in grades, though that can certainly help, but things that weren’t mentioned/explained properly on the application. I bet if you do a forum search some threads (may) pop up.</p>
<p>Private colleges have explicit no-appeals rules in place. Publics generally allow them for 1) obvious and material mistakes (e.g. wrong transcript) or 2) extenuating and extraordinary circumstances. These are subjective measures – but on the surface, your situation doesn’t seem to qualify.</p>
<p>Imagine the nightmare for adcoms if a school developed a reputation for allowing appeals of admissions decisions. Even with the strict policies mentioned by T62E4, they are already innudated with calls from irate and dumbounded applicants and (even worse) parents throughout April.</p>
<p>If they allow even one successful appeal, word will spread and riots might well ensue. Harvard rejects 30,000 applicants every year and they freely admit that there is little substantive difference between those accepted and many who are rejected. Probably every one of those 30k students believe they were the last one cut from the class.</p>
<p>Catie, I think the first thing to do is look and see what the school you’re hoping to attend says about appeals. Many, if not most, don’t accept them.
The next thing is to be absolutely sure you’ve applied to safeties you like.</p>
<p>I’m so glad that your appeal was granted! I’m possibly thinking of appeal as well. Except for admissions decision /: I’m not sure if the college web accepts appeal because there is not any information on their website. Should I call or email? I feel awkward but it’s worth a shot to appeal even if the chances are extremely slim… Right?</p>
<p>Appeals are more likely to work for
-non-top public schools. This is the most important factor. Back when schools released statistics, it was shown that even non-top privates such as USC accepted only one or two appeals a year from hundreds. Meanwhile, UCR accepted around 25%.
-mistakes in grades or SAT score.
-if you appeal more than once.</p>
<p>In other words, don’t count on an appeal working. These adcoms are professionals at building a class. If you feel the jump in work hours hurt (and if there was a good reason for the hours,) can you have your GC note the situation and all your stellar qualities despite the temporary pothole? We don’t know where you are applying, what the deadlines are. But, most colleges only look at 2nd semester senior grades after acceptance. If you’ve applied to reaches based on what Dad thought, please check to make sure you have good safeties.</p>