<p>i would just like to know, if you were rejected (and you disclosed your ADHD on your submission docs), did you appeal the decision and what was the outcome?</p>
<p>Why would they change their decision if you disclosed it to begin with?</p>
<p>I think people are getting the wrong signals… having a disability or being a URM doesn’t mean you’re entitled to admission anywhere.</p>
<p>Search the learning differences forum and see if there is are any posts about this there. Someone with more knowledge about this may answer you on that forum.</p>
<p>I wasn’t aware that one could “appeal” admissions decisions.</p>
<p>HarvestMoon, one can’t always. Many private colleges and universities don’t entertain appeals at all. But some privates and many publics do. The overwhelming majority of appeals fail.</p>
<p>Dreamin, what would the basis of your appeal be? To put things bluntly, you presented yourself, and they decided they’d rather have somebody else. What about your appeal would make them change their minds.</p>
<p>the reason i asked this here is that when we visited a local state public college, i spoke with an admissions counselor specifically about students with disabilities and their applications. she told me that i should be sure to disclose the disability, because it would matter in the event i was rejected and needed to do an appeal. i had not even known there was an appeal process to be honest and wondered how many people with disabilities were rejected and appealed.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether Cal Tech even entertains appeals. </p>
<p>But here’s the thing about appeals: in order for yours to succeed, you need to present evidence that the admissions committee didn’t have before, that shows you’re a significantly stronger or more desirable applicant than they thought.</p>
<p>Simply providing evidence of ADHD isn’t going to make any difference if you’ve been diagnosed and treated all along, and your ADD was being treated while you were compiling the record that didn’t get you in in the first place. Because there’s no reason to think you’ll be a remarkably better or more intriguing student than you have been, there’s no incentive for Cal Tech (or any other university) to overturn its initial decision.</p>
<p>Cal Tech may have liked you just fine–schools that selective reject thousands of applicants they’d be perfectly happy to have, simply because they’ve chosen others until the class was full–but they’d need something that says you have much more promise than they knew in order to reverse their original decision. Because if they reversed their decision with less reason than that, they would be buried in appeals every spring.</p>