<p>Has this ever happened? Out of curiosity.. have any students ever been rejected to their top choice and didn't feel as if they did as much as they good before and now what a second chance. They call the school and do everything in their power. Have schools ever accepted kids that were once denied?!</p>
<p>A very good friend of mine was rejected from McGill in Canada. Her GPA, SATS and extracurriculars were all waaay above average, so what did she do? Email them? Nope. Phone them? Nope.
She basically got a visa and hauled ass to Canada and had a meeting with the Admissions officer, and basically asked him where her application went wrong.
She now goes to McGill 
So even if you think its not worth it, make it a point to find out exactly where your application lacked. What’ve you got to lose?</p>
<p>^Haha that’s awesome.</p>
<p>It has happened. But it’s one of those things that happens so rarely, you basically shouldn’t try. Because the success stories are awesome and all, but what you never hear are the countless times where someone poured their heart out… and then stayed rejected.</p>
<p>The best thing to do is just accept the decisions you got and move on. Would you try to appeal a decision for an employer not to hire you? And do you think that doing so every time you really wanted a job would make you happy?</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know that I would say, “Don’t try because it happens so rarely.”</p>
<p>I know that I wouldn’t expect it to happen, and I wouldn’t make an entire nuisance out of myself, or do it if I wasn’t actually “qualified,” but there’s no reason not to try as long as you know that it might not work out.</p>
<p>I mean, what’s the worst thing that can happen? You end up in the same position you are in now. just my opinion.</p>
<p>Yeah i agree with poetgrl. Its stupid as **** to not try at all, never knowing what could have been. Just try, and then you’ve got two options, either you stay rejected or you get accepted. And you got rejected first time round anyways so what’ve you got to lose?</p>
<p>The worst thing that could happen is that you spend an extra two months stressing about it, and you almost certainly still don’t get in. Is that worth it? Not really.</p>
<p>Is it a school with a waiting list? If so, don’t bother. There is absolutely no way that someone who was denied is going to be admitted before all the folks who were wait-listed.</p>
<p>Personally, I’m not going to do this. I was already accepted into my top choices, but I was wondering if it’s possible.</p>
<p>Maybe after begging, pleading, and writing the check for a new building.</p>
<p>^^ haha yeah, these days, it takes more than a building though, maybe a pond, some trees, and shazzam! you’re in. </p>
<p>ignore the shazzam. I’m not myself.</p>
<p>Hahhaha that’s funny. Personally, if a school didn’t want me, then I wouldn’t want them!</p>
<p>Yeahh, never heard of that happening…
And it also depends on what schools you’re applying to. If it’s an Ivy, forget it.</p>
<p>My friend did it for UBC in Vancouver, so maybe it only applies to Canadian schools? But he called the admissions office almost all the time, sent in a TON of extra info, wrote another essay about why he liked UBC, and he just continued until the beginning of august when school was almost in session. Apparently his perseverance paid off and he ended up getting in.</p>
<p>Wrong. A friend of my sister was rejected from UVA in 2000. Her mother called and asked what should her daughter have done differently. She needed to know because she had 3 other kids at home. The admissions counselor told the mom he would pull her daughter’s file and call her back. She did not hear back from him, but 1 week later her daughter received a waitlist letter and 3 weeks later she was admitted. She graduated from UVA and is now in med school in Tennessee. What a mom!!!</p>
<p>is it bad to do it to a school like hopkins or gwu?</p>
<p>“Wrong. A friend of my sister was rejected from UVA in 2000. Her mother called and asked what should her daughter have done differently”</p>
<p>The mother didn’t beg and plead. Maybe what happened is that when the admissions officer pulled the file, he didn’t see any reason for the girl’s rejection, and realized it was a mistake.</p>
<p>why dont you guys stop being scrubs and just get in the first time</p>
<p>Who knows what that mother actually said? She could have said, “My husband – Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd President – was very dismayed to hear that you denied my daughter…”</p>
<p>^Necrophilia is not cool. ;)</p>