<p>If I were to email them, could they give me a comprehensive individualized answer or are they no allowed to?</p>
<p>Admissions Officers don’t want to go down that road. They might be more forthcoming with your guidance counselor, but as the whole process is very subjective, and is really about comparing your application/abilities/potential to other students, expect the answer to be rather general, something like: “The competition was really fierce this year and there were many outstanding applicants. Unfortunately, we just didn’t have room for all the qualified students, like you.”</p>
<p>Also, read: <a href=“Rejection: Some Colleges Do It Better Than Others - WSJ”>Rejection: Some Colleges Do It Better Than Others - WSJ;
<p>No, unfortunately. You won’t get any answers besides the type gibby mentioned. It may even be explicitly stated on the rejection letter than detailed reason for rejection cannot be provided.</p>
<p>So, would it work if I were to ask my Counselor to ask them?
I really want an honest answer, im extremely curious and perhaps it can shun some light into myself</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor might get the same kind of response, or they might get something more detailed. Much depends on whether they have an established relationship with the college’s Regional Admissions Director.</p>
<p>I doubt your guidance counselor will get any answers either unless your high school have had a long relationship with the college or something, but you can always try :). It’s extremely difficult to get a hold of the actual admissions officer, and they read so many files that it’s unlikely the person will remember everything about you. </p>
<p>However, if you’re admitted and choose to matriculate, I believe you can ask at the admissions office to see the notes that the adcoms jotted down on your file.</p>
<p>cross posted with gibby.</p>
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<p>This is an honest answer. At least 80% of the applicants are legitimate contenders and not obvious rejects. Of that 80%, how many have so poor a letter of recommendation as to sabotage an otherwise great candidate? How many have a painful to read essay? As I’ve heard from admissions, if the 2000 accepted candidates were passed over for the next set of 2000 candidates, no one would know about this except for the admissions office. The faculty would not see a difference nor would the upperclassmen. If your guidance counselor is “shocked” that you were turned down, then let him/her see if there was something you could change for the RD round but the answer is likely to be nothing.</p>
<p>Considering the 25000 rejections they’ll have this year, why would Yale or any other college install a system other than a friendly “I’m sorry”?</p>
<p>Twenty-five years ago, I had a friend who had worked in admissions at Harvard–back in the days when Harvard admitted about 15% of applicants, as opposed to under 7% today. Even then, she said that her job involved mostly rejecting perfectly qualified applicants for no good reason.</p>
<p>If that’s what it was like in the '80s, what do you imagine it’s like today?</p>
<p>No, nobody at Yale is going to tell you–or your guidance counselor–why you weren’t admitted. It’s quite possible that nobody really could tell you, even if somebody were of a mind to.</p>
<p>Sorry you didn’t get the answer you wanted–from Yale or from me–but it’s time to get on with your life.</p>
<p>One the flip side, the admission officer actually may talk to you about what he or she remembers about your application after you were admitted and visited the campus on Bulldogs Days or Vistas. The message here is that there may not be any particular reasons for your rejection but you must left an indelible impression in the mind of the admission officer if you were admitted.</p>
<p>…perhaps not exactly what Farzaad wanted to hear just now.</p>
<p>I’m purely fine with it since they rolled me into Regular decisions.
Its just that I always think that Admissions officers from Yale must be very intelligent people.
By this logical, they must have very interesting and enlightening perspective.
Thus, it would only seem logical that I could gain some wisdom from them.</p>
<p>I am not hurt or anything since there is still a chance</p>
<p>Wait…you got deferred? They defer a lot of people! And if you’re still an applicant at Yale, I wouldn’t recommend going anywhere near the admissions officer with this question.</p>
<p>Wait… How did you receive your decision so soon? I have a friend who did yale EA but he is expecting his decision on the 15th…</p>
<p>@EstotericalApp Most likely via QuestBridge.</p>
<p>But yes, I agree–don’t bother them at all if you’ve been deferred.</p>
<p>It was indeed via QuestBridge.</p>
<p>Its just that, as I said in the above post, I assume the admissions officers must be very intelligent individuals who can provide great wisdom.
That is the only reason why I am interested in what they would have to say.
But I’ll take your advice and not bother them with it what so ever</p>
<p>I have heard from someone whose roommate was an admissions officer that she would often come home crying because she had to reject so many qualified students. Not sure if it’s true. But if it is, this gives some truth to “we really want to accept you, but just don’t have enough slots.”</p>