| Sammie, I already posted this somewhere but I thought that it might hepl .
I do not know if anyone else besides my friends did that but this is what happened to a friend (X) of mine who will be attending an Ivy ( Z university) next year. X was rejected by most of the school she applied to and waitlisted by Zuniversity she also needed full aid to attend. Our HS counselor as everyone to send a rejection letter to extra schools after we chose where we wanted to go so those who were on the waiting list could have a better chance. Even after that my friend did not receive an acceptance letter.
All our friends who rejected Z university sent a second individual letter saying that they chose to go to another school but thought that X will be a good match for their school therefore they asked the admission office to recosider X application. They wrote about him as a person and how bad it will be if he does not get in. Their letters were not dramatic nor did they praise X's quality as a God. It was a really nice gesture but we graduated without hearing anything from the school. Someday in the middle of summer, X sent a mass email telling us that she received a letter from Z university, telling her that she was offered a place for the 2012 class. Z happily took a GAP year and will start school in the fall. If you have a lot of friends who rejected Grinell, they can maybe do the same for you. Even if some of the students are not your friend, you can still ask them to do that for you. I know that you might have your pride and might not one people tell you later that you get into Grinell because of them but I think that it's worth it. I wish you the best. |