Community College for Student Not Accepted Anywhere?

[Sally_Rubenstone]

My daughter did not do well 10th and 11th grade, which hurt her GPA. She did stellar in the 12th grade. Unfortunately, college applications had to be filed by December, and her GPA, although improved, was only at 2.65. She scored 26 on her ACT. She was not accepted into the colleges of her [...]

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[Sally_Rubenstone]

There's a happy ending to the story. The mom who had submitted this "Ask the Dean" question followed my suggestion and checked out NACAC's Space Availability Survey. On it she found the name of a college that had denied her daughter last winter, before seeing the girl's much improved senior-year GPA. So the family contacted the school, said that they could provide proof of major improvement, and the daughter was admitted after all.

Note: Don't use this saga as an incentive to contact all the colleges that denied you (or your child) and plead for admission. But if the school is on the NACAC list and clearly still looking for freshmen, I think it's okay to take a shot at an 11th-hour appeal, IF there have been significant changes since the application was filed, as in this student's case.