OK to call Admissions office after rejection?

menloparkmom
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:03:28 +0000

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The GC can make the call to see if there was a mistake or to inquire if there was a particular reason for the rejection . I am not the only one who has said this. An admissions office would be more willing to divulge that sort of information to the GC, in the interest of future applicants from the HS. Maybe there was a mistake or maybe it was the grades or a LOR was not as supportive as the student thought [ and students and parents do not see LOR’s as a rule] or who knows. An ED rejection, at a college that the GC thought was a slam dunk acceptance, is a wake up call that he should be addressing. The point that many of us are making is it is time for the student and parent to be looking forward, not backward, and be putting their efforts into finding colleges where she is more likely to be accepted.

“Adcoms expect to get such calls from GCs. Part of the job. And if the GCs understand better what the college is looking for, he/she will steer the right applicants to them and steer the others away. Works to make life easier for everyone.”
Exactly my point.