<p>I applied to a lot of places, mostly Ivy-league kind of places, and got rejected almost everywhere...</p>
<p>I know that all those universities say that they don't have a rejection appeals process, but from reading things on the internet, I guess it still happens sometimes.</p>
<p>The big thing is, out of the fear that it will negatively affect me, I didn't mention that I'm currently living alone and doing all the responsibilities that entails. People think its a blast, but eh.....it's really hard and I think admissions officers will know this.</p>
<p>Should I write a letter to those universities asking them to look at me again with the "new" circumstance?? or will it be for nothing?</p>
<p>You can try and it doesn't hurt to try. Also don't worry about it having a negative affect on you because face it, you already got rejected, so how worse could you make it. I'm currently going to try and appeal a rejection, and I really don't care what they think of me because of it. They should realize that I want to go to their school, and maybe there was something that I had not made clear to them before. So I say go for it.</p>
<p>I think living alone will not make a big difference unless you can write an excellent essay about it. But I'll still suggest you to try because you never know what would happen in the end if you dare not try. Even if the decision might be the same, at least you have done all you can, giving yourself no regret!</p>
<p>some schools like william&mary dont even allow it, there reason being that they would have to re-evaluate every applications if they accepted appeals. personally i think thats bs.</p>
<p>At USC in the reject letter they overturned 14/600 appeals and another 14 got a spring admit there.....which is like 5 percent....but hey its still a shot</p>
<p>I have read up about appeals in CC's "ask the dean" section, and I'm at least gonna try.</p>
<p>I have decided to write another essay about my life this year living alone and send it in with a letter explaining the situation, and pleading them to take a second look because of that and new awards, and better test scores than what they have received. I'm not expecting them to do anything other than ignoring my letter, but I'm gonna definitely try at least. </p>
<p>One thing though, should I send it as an email or by postal???
Also, I'm a Korean international (ouch...I know), so should I address it to the officer responsible for Asia, or the dean of admissions??</p>
<p>i really don't think it'll change anything. I wrote an essay about living alone and i'm korean too. I think that really helped me get into columbia so i think it could have helped you. I'm sorry but the opportunity is gone and that opportunity at least for freshmen admissions will never come back to you. If is unfortunate taht you couldn't grab that chance because it's already. All i can say is good luck in some other place and transfer if you feel strongly. Also you have a very low chance. Appeals i guess if you were waitlisted are possible but plain rejection doin't think it's gonna work.
Anyways i won't blame you for trying. Good luck at college.</p>
<p>It will not help you at all to try to appeal. The best thing to do is move on and go to whatever college accepted you. If you don't like it, just do very well academically and you can try to transfer to your first few choices.</p>
<p>It would only be worth your while if there were a clear mistake, which is virtually impossible to show at an Ivy, because so many top students are rejected. Check with your guidance counselor.</p>