<p>You can try to challenge the decision if your credentials are close to those of the accepted students. My son was initially rejected at Swanson and offered acceptance at A&S. We challenged the decision because his SAT scores and GPA were similar to accepted students. He was rejected apparently because he didn’t have enough Chemistry and Physics units in high school. But because he offered to take Chemistry at a community college and took SAT2 in Physics (score of 720) they changed the decision and accepted him in the Engineering program.</p>