<p>Back to the topic question -- has anyone done a successful appeal? Seems like it's pretty rare. What if the school messed up your transcript? Someone on CC had that happen to them.</p>
<p>yeah i read that post. if that kind of thing happens, i would definitely go for an appeal. admissions officers are people after all. and those kinds of mistakes arent really the applicant's fault, especially if the college asked that the student not see the transcript.</p>
<p>otherwise, i think it's a lon shot to appeal to colleges, unless you believe you were utterly screwed over. as in, your SAT's are well above 2100, youve got loads of EC's and your recoms are good, then i'd say appeal. but otherwise, just let it go and decided among the schools that obviously see your potential</p>
<p>Why not send that joke letter in? Seems humorous =)</p>
<p>Anyway, I say do it only if your scores were wrong/incorrect. Otherwise, its a lost cause. Thousands of kids want to go to the college too, I kind of doubt they would accept you if you just wrote a letter saying how much you want to go there.</p>
<p>Of course, there are circumstances (death in family during semester, cause for bad grades), but your consuler should have already put that on your rec.</p>
<p>And even if you feel you were utterly screwed over as in 4.0 2400, join us...we all got screwed over this year. Sorry mate.</p>
<p>lol @ apumic. Love it!</p>
<p>What about an incorrect SAT II score? (80 pts increase) I notified the colleges the 2nd to last week before decisions were released. Would that make any difference?</p>
<p>you should send that in, since it seems like a pretty good reason to me. </p>
<p>can someone explain how it is possible to send an incorrect SAT score? doesn't collegeboard send a copy of all your scores to the school?</p>
<p>LOL!!!! Can't tell you how much that made me laugh apumic :)</p>
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<p>Hey guys, I am in the same boat you are in...I got rejected from my #1 (and only if you ask me) college choice, and I am in the middle of creating a plan to appeal their decision. I have done a lot of EC's this semester, along with getting decent grades (but i have always done lots of EC's and had good grades). Do you think I have a chance to woo the admissions office over? I was going to get letters of recommendation, and write a letter to the director of the admissions office. I will let you guys know how this goes.</p>
<p>You have nothing to lose by writing. I would think that your chances at getting moved from being rejected to the waitlist would be higher.</p>
<p>Have you ever heard of someone being moved from rejected to waitlist? I would think that most schools would not do that because their policies are that all decisions are final and changing something from rejected to waitlist would go against that.
I do wonder what happens when very selective schools make a mistake. ie an important development admit with high SAT scores and high grades was rejected when she was really accepted ect. I wonder what schools do in that situation. They cant simply send the acceptance after the rejection because they would not want the publicity that they had made an error. They also woulld not want it to look like they reconsidered the application because that would go against their policy and they would not want 20,000 applicants calling them to ask them to reconsider theirs or check if there was an error.
This might be the only situation where I can see a rejection being elevated to a waitlist. The school could possibly mail the student a late waitlist and then give them a spot off the waitlist, but I am not even sure they would do this.
I suppose schools make erros because they may imput on the computer that a student is denied or waitlisted and then get a call that that student is very important to the schooil, and relook at the application and decide to accept but the computer system is never updated and the error is made. However, I imagine they never coorect these</p>
<p>my point being that it would seem much easier to move from rejected to waitlist than from rejected to accepted.</p>
<p>True. I would think they would probably not move someone from rejected to waitlist unless they planned to put them on the top of the waitlist and take them of a spot became available. ie. they realized they made an error. There are so many people on the waitlist that I dont think they would add another one unless they were trying to correct an admission error</p>
<p>UC's are University of California schools</p>
<p>I think it would be extremely unlikely for a school to reconsider a rejection, though 30 years ago a friend of mine did get a school to do just that- I believe substantial dollars were involved. Seriously. She was a great student who received an unexpected batch of rejections and was left with one school she dreaded but had rolling admissions. Some how, her top choice, a well known private university in central PA, turned around and admitted her.... rumor had it that her Fortune-500 Executive VP Dad pulled some strings and wrote a check. Her dad was later a trustee of that school, which sort of substantiates the rumor. So, that's one way. And it was 30 years ago.</p>
<p>On the more realistic side, I am sorry to report that Northwestern refused to reconsider my D's early application after we learned that College Board did indeed send her old scores in November, and not her October scores, which were moderately higher. We'll never know if they were enough higher. They have a final is final is final attitude. So, no, I don't think a normal person, without highly influential connections and money, can successfully appeal an admissions decision, especially from schools in the top 10% of colleges. They just don't need to! </p>
<p>Last thought, it won't hurt you to try, as long as it is thoughtful and well written. If you're willing to take the time and pay the postage, what the heck. Just make sure your expectations are in check.</p>
<p>Listen, I'm not a college admissions consultant or a college admissions officer, and most likely most people responding on this thread aren't either. The poster has to go with his/her gut and if he/she believes there are merits to an appeal, go for it, knowing the odds are clearly against it being granted. But you never know what can happen.</p>
<p>I have contacted the college I am appealing to, and they actually have a system for theirs, they have a committee that looks at all the appeals once a week. Why would they have these if they aren't going to actually look at the appeal? I believe that you have a chance, because you are showing the college you really want to go to their school, that you are determined. It might be a really slim chance, but it doesn't hurt. This appeal is going to drive me nuts...thank goodness it won't be long until they make a decision. It is really the only school I want to go to.</p>
<p>hi guys thanks for all the response. i am astounded. now i have another question. who should i address my letter to?</p>
<p>one of my friends recieved a rejection when they looked at their decision online to a school. the next day she recieved a letter saying she had been waitlisted and then the next week got a letter accepting her off of the waitlist. it was her top choice too...</p>
<p>i would assume you send it to the admissions office but if you call them and ask where to send supplementary materials it would show them your interest and you'd get an answer (even if it is just the admissions office)</p>
<p>I would send it to the director of the admissions office</p>