Thanks for reading the blog and posting though.

All of the students who formally request a reconsideration (see below for how this is done) receive that reconsideration. I do not keep a statistic on how many of those decisions are reversed, but I can tell you that it is not many. The appeal/reconsideration process works like this: If a student wishes to appeal their admissions decision, they must write a formal letter (not an email) to our Dean of Admissions, Douglas Christiansen, requesting a reconsideration. In that reconsideration, we strongly encourage applicants to submit any NEW information that may be available (new grades, new testing, etc). An independent committee is then chaired by the Dean to decide these reconsiderations and a final decision is returned to the applicant.

I mentioned that few reconsiderations result in a reversal of the decision. It is important to note that this is not due to some internal “stacking of the deck” or “one strike already against you” thing, just that it is rare that the new information a student submits dramatically changes things.

Thanks for the question,
T

The first thing I would say for you to do in this case is to call us and one of our Admissions Officers can tell you what is in your file (800-288-0432). If our admission decision was not what you were hoping it would be, that officer can try and explain the decision. Keep in mind that this is often a tougher task than one would first assume. The non-formulaic and holistic evaluation process is sometimes hard to unpack for students and families who call us after decisions are received, but we try nonetheless.

Keep a couple of things in mind: 1) we rarely defer students from ED to Regular, and 2) there is always an appeal process that is in place that starts with the student writing our Dean of Admissions formally requesting another review. In those cases it is always helpful to provide additional information that may be used in the appeal.

Thom

Thanks for your question. I’ve noticed similar questions about EDII on CC, so I’m glad you asked about it here. While the EDII pool is still taking shape (the postmark deadline is Jan 3 along with RD), we’ve made our EDI admit decisions and overall enrollment plan to make sure to leave room for EDII. Unfortunately, I can’t give you an exact number of potential admits, and I don’t know if it ultimately will be more or less than last year (it always depends on the quality of pool), I can assure you that there is room for EDII students in the incoming class, just like there has been in past years.

Thom