<p>Who do i e-mail for the waitlist appeal?
Should I just direct my appeal to the General Admissions Board or Paul Thiboutot himself?</p>
<p>From a high school friend’s experience, I am fairly certain that Carleton doesn’t consider appeals…you can call the office to ask about it, though! There’s always the chance you could get accepted off of the wait list, though, and you could send supplemental materials in.</p>
<p>As a parent and as an academic, I would second the suggestion that an appeal of the decision to put you on the waitlist is a fruitless course. Concentrate your efforts on responding to your waitlist slot and asking if you might be able to send them some supplemental information about what you may have done since you filed your application.</p>
<p>Attempting to appeal a decision that required a lot of consideration on their part and is already a done deal may only serve to hurt your cause. Lots and lots of very qualified applicants ended up on the waitlists of colleges all over the country. This is just a simple case of a finite number of entry slots for a growing number of applicants. If your heart is set on Carleton, try the waitlist option but, actually, I would recommend that you start seriously thinking of your other choices. Carleton is a wonderful place but it is certainly not the only wonderful LAC out there. Visit the schools that accepted you (if possible) and look for the wonder in one of those. If you do get off the waitlist, you can reconsider but, realistically, the odds are not great.
Strength of character comes from learning to make the best of what is dealt to you. Remember that you make your own college experience wherever you go.
Good Luck to you.</p>
<p>NEValu,
Thank you for such encouraging words. I have accepted that I will probably not get into Carleton College, and I have considered other choices that have accepted me ( One of them is their Rival, St. Olaf ). Truthfully, I just want to keep my options open and just do not want to give up. For me, picking a college is like deciding on your future. It is the time in whihc I invest in to build up my human capital and hopefully bring my foot through the gates of a Medical School. I have not chosen ny top college yet. All eight of the colleges I applied to are about even in preference. And you are right. College is what you make of it.</p>
<p>I sent an email to the standard admissions@carleton address accepting my place on the waitlist, expressing again why Carleton was one of my top choices and a special college to me, and highlighting some recent activities (academic and extracurricular both) that didn’t get in on my transcript, but they might be favorably inclined towards.</p>
<p>Although I’m a bit biased, I think something like that is a more fruitful course than a direct waitlist appeal at this stage.</p>
<p>Carleton tells its waitlisted students to send them a letter or email if they want to stay on the waitlist. This is not called an appeal. If you want to be considered to be admitted from the waitlist you HAVE TO send them something in writing. Usually around 300 students decide to remain on the waitlist. Sending in that letter is very different from appealing an admissions decision. You are accepting your spot on the waitlist.</p>
<p>If you want to APPEAL your admissions decision, that means you are arguing that the admissions committee somehow missed a crucial piece of information and you should have been admitted from the beginning, not after waiting on the waitlist. Typically Carleton does not reverse its admissions decisions, so it is pretty fruitless to try that. An appeal is VERY different than telling them you want to stay on the waitlist.</p>