<p>Not exactly an appeal, just want to know the reasons. What's better: calling, emailing, mailing a letter?</p>
<p>They won’t tell you. It’s confidential information and totally subject to law suits they’d want to avoid.</p>
<p>Everyone rejected will scream “unfair!” and all that crap and sue the hell out of colleges.</p>
<p>Ya, civetta, you’re never going to find out. YOu also have to realize that a lot of colleges can fill their freshman classes many times over with qualified candidates and sometimes it may come down to something as simple as geographic location or even just luck.</p>
<p>Several kids we know had their school guidance couselors call the admissions offices when they were deferred/rejected from ED. People in admissions were very helpful. One college said ‘test scores not high enough’ (rejected) another said "everything looks good if she can just bring a couple grades up 1st semester’ (defered).</p>
<p>Doesn’t hurt to ask.</p>
<p>I’d try asking. If they say they can’t tell you, at least you attempted.</p>
<p>Why don’t you give us your stats and the college you got rejected from and maybe your friends at CC can figure it out? If you want…</p>
<p>If you call, you might be able to get an answer right away. When Stanford waitlisted someone from our school a couple years ago, that’s what she did and they explained it.</p>
<p>I’d send them an e-mail message, so they have time to look it up. My son was accepteted by a university, but denied to a certain program. He asked the admissions rep the reason, when he was in her office, and she told him his ACT score was one point short. I think it helped him to know the reason.</p>
<p>I recommend having your GC call - if they have a good relationship - you will get a more accurate answer. We frequently call our rep at the small/medium schools and can usually get some feedback. If it is something concrete - like GPA - we will send more grades - mid-trimester, etc. - to show demonstrated interest and improvement in grades. There is not always a concrete reason - but we try to get one where we can.</p>
<p>Yeah we could really help you more if you told us the school and your stats. I contacted Yale reps after being denied SCEA, he responded with the canned " we don’t give out this info". If you know you have the GPA/stats, then it becomes much more subjective. At that point the only thing you could have changed was an improvement in grades, SATs, and your ESSAYS! You can’t change your awards or ECs drastically.</p>
<p>A classmate of my son’s was able to find out that he was rejected by Georgetown because he didn’t take the most rigorous course load. He had taken Statistics senior year instead of AP Cal or reg Cal.</p>
<p>Why torture yourself? It’s not likely that if you find out exact info that you can do anything to change and then reapply after a year, right? And of course, if you get any info whatsoever, it’ll be generalities (very competitive pool, difficult for us to choose, had to limit acceptances) to common sense stuff (not very strong transcript, scores, etc.).</p>
<p>I can guarantee you that the answer given you will be one of those. If rejected, just move on.</p>
<p>I just found out I didn’t get into CalPoly with a 4.25 GPA and their “SAT 1” of 1150 for biological sciences. What gives. I know my reading/math combined sat of 1150 is a little low for calpoly but my gpa is way above average. Any ideas to help me figure this out?</p>
<p>^Start your own thread.</p>
<p>OP, get your GC to call. A kid deferred from Amherst did that at my school and they explained that his ACT score was the biggest factor. Of course, they also said getting that score up was no guarantee, but it’s nice to know where exactly you were weak even if you got rejected.</p>
<p>@gingercat</p>
<p>Admissions to cal poly depends very much on the major you choose. If you were, say, an english major, a 4.25 GPA and 1150 SAT might well have gotten you in. But biology is very competitive, so your 1150 probably just didn’t cut it.</p>
<p>yeah, 1150 is kinda low (great grammar)</p>
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<p>If he took AP Stats then that might be one of the dumbest reasons for a rejection that I’ve ever heard of. First off, AP Stats is an AP class and, second off, I find that statistics is generally more applicable than calculus especially for political science majors (there are some instances where calculus is used - but statistics is used MUCH MUCH more for polling, etc.). As well, I find statistics to be more interesting than calculus and I don’t see the purpose of ‘challenging’ oneself if ‘challenging’ oneself is simply taking the hardest classes whatever they are. That’s not intellectual curiosity or vitality - that’s just taking hard classes for the sole purpose of taking hard classes and nothing more. Sure, harder classes may be able to strengthen a student’s rational capabilities but I would not think that there would be that big of a disparity between AP Calc (esp. Reg Calc) and AP Stats in terms of rigor…Regardless, maybe I misinterpreted something but that just seems bizarre…</p>
<p>You can’t really … you could contact them … but they’re not required to respond.</p>
<p>If they DO respond … be thankful. They’re helping you when they really don’t.</p>
<p>many of my friends received the reply are just “your score is not high enough”…</p>