<p>Real, good info. or just another reason to get us all optimistic?</p>
<p>4</a> Reasons a Rejection Letter Isn't Always the End - US News and World Report</p>
<p>Interesting, and it’s clear that the chances are remote that a rejection will be reversed.</p>
<p>“Most schools, especially the highly selective colleges flooded with desperate applicants, say they just don’t have the staff to consider appeals, and they often say so in their rejection letters. Other schools will reconsider applicants who have something legitimately new to add to their applications. At the University of Georgia, for example, although appeals are not mentioned in the standard rejection letter, they are occasionally considered. “The student really has to pursue and request” an appeal to the Faculty Admissions Committee, says Patrick Winter, senior associate director of the admissions office. That group will generally recommend the university president reverse a rejection only if “there is any information that we didn’t have” in the application. He says that fewer than 4 percent of the appeals gain admission. Grinnell College in Iowa also doesn’t encourage appeals but will consider them from very persuasive students (not their families). “The student has to be the appealer. It is what the student has to say that changes our minds,” says Seth Allen, Grinnell’s dean of admissions and financial aid.”</p>