Anyone else get straight up rejected with reasonable stats?

jandjdad
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:22:12 +0000

Scottj and Bayou,
Maybe I wasn’t clear. I’m not suggesting that the OP ask for the reason for his/her rejection, just to ask the adcom to make sure it wasn’t a mistake. If you take every decision at face value and never question the ones that seem outside the norm (and this one does, based on stats only- not knowing the whole picture), then there is potential for a mistake to go unrectified. I’m not suggesting he ask the cause for his outright rejection, just to make sure there wasn’t a mistake. With an early action admission rate of 44% and SATs that appear to be near the top 25% of enrolled freshman per collegedata.com, it seems odd. You can call it naive to expect them to even check it again but with such a huge number of applicants, how is it unreasonable to think that maybe there could b a mistake? Again, what is the downside, he already was rejected. Maybe because I have seen too many mistakes in things much more important than even college admissions to just accept things that I think it’s not too much to question it…
If it had been a school with a single digit acceptance rate I would totally agree with you, but in this instance unless there are some very important factors being left out…