<p>Has anyone with a deferment or rejection managed to get further information from the Admissions Office? Specific details are kind of hush-hush and asking for them is bound to irritate the adcoms …</p>
<p>That said, does anyone know of any specific faculty or staff, or maybe even student aids that have helped you out?</p>
<p>The admissions office is closed until January</p>
<p>Anybody know if there’s any way to contact an admissions officer before January?</p>
<p>This is obvious … that’s why I’m asking in the past tense … HAS anyone managed to contact the admissions office to get more info about their deferral or rejection, before christmas break.</p>
<p>What information are you looking for? If you got rejected, there’s nothing more they can do for you, and I don’t think it’s as simple as “We didn’t take you because your SAT was 100 points too low” or something like that.</p>
<p>UC and CSU adcoms have, in the past, shared information with a responsible party (hs counselor or rec letter writer). I know of a letter writer (hs teacher) who contacted UC Davis about why a student with a stellar GPA was rejected, and was told that the applicant’s test scores were low and essays were poorly written.</p>
<p>I hear about the issue of poorly written essays a lot, with adcoms wondering how a student can receive an A in regular or AP English and demonstrate such poor essay writing.</p>