my friend's appeal

flong
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:53:36 +0000

My friend wants to appeal to SD (its not for me, i already got in for fall in Marshall). His grandma who lives with him died last year a month before his SAT’s and he lost focus for a few weeks because she was someone very close to him and his family. At the time of applications, he decided not to write about it (although he should have since he would have gotten 500 points and turns out he was only short 250 points of an acceptance). He called SD admissions and the lady said he had a valid claim in saying his gma’s death affected his studies for the standardized tests.

He has a 3.95 w and a 2030 with decent sat 2 scores in both. Can anyone from SD tell me the going appeal rate and if his solid app coupled with the his gma’s death (death certificate sent w/ appeal) be able to overturn sd’s decision?