OK to call Admissions office after rejection?

bclintonk
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:42:09 +0000

My understanding is these decisions are usually made by committee, i.e., by vote, which means there may be no clear reason for it. One person might have been concerned about the dip in junior year grades, another that the school had already admitted too many similar applicants and they were looking for a little more diversity, and so on, another that they had already admitted too many from the ED pool and this particular admissions officer wanted to save more slots for the RD pool where he had some really promising candidates. Some of those reasons may have been articulated at the meeting, others not. In that circumstance it’s not just that they don’t want to tell you, but that they can’t, because there’s no particular reason they could identify.

Let it go.