Appealing an Admissions Decision

[Dansir]

Hi all,

At his point I am pretty positive I am going to attend University At Albany-SUNY for my MSW in the fall. The program and faculty's research aligns very heavily with my interests.

However, I live in the city and got rejected from Hunter College, which was one of my top schools. Does anyone recommended appealing the admissions decision? As much as I love Albany's Program, moving out of NYC (I live in Queens) has been a difficult decision. And going to admitted student day at Columbia on Friday I met quite a few people who got accepted to Hunter but probably aren't going to attend.

Hunter is the only public school that is affordable in the city and I just really wanted to go their to make my life easier. I am not going to pay for Columbia's program and will reject their offer once my financial aid appeal comes back. I don't think the program is worth the ticket price.

Otherwise I am fine going to Albany I just wondered other people's thoughts on this and if other people have done it before!

Edited May 15, 2018 by Dansir

[fuzzylogician]

This has very low to no chances of working, but I suppose you could try. I really wouldn't get my hopes up for a positive result, though. 

[Pr3tinpink1]

I got rejected from Hunter today and will definitely appeal , everything went seemingly fine for the interview so I am very confused.

where do you think you messed up?if at all? 

[Dansir]

13 hours ago, Pr3tinpink1 said:

I got rejected from Hunter today and will definitely appeal , everything went seemingly fine for the interview so I am very confused.

where do you think you messed up?if at all? 

 

 

Edited May 16, 2018 by Dansir

[TakeruK]

Does your field and/or this specific program have some sort of formal or official appeal procedure? This would be very uncommon in my field, and it's actually would be very normal for someone to get a rejection after inquiring about their status. The reason is that most programs would make their interview/short lists and notify those applicants. But they wouldn't automatically notify the rest of the applicants because 1) there are way more of them and 2) it is extra work when they already have a lot of work to schedule and conduct interviews. Most programs wait until they have made final decisions (or maybe even after the accepted students all have made their own decisions) before sending out rejections. However, if an applicant calls or emails about their status, they might be able to give out an earlier decision and let you know that you have been rejected sooner rather than later. They do this as a courtesy, since they are assuming if you are emailing/calling to ask, you might have other offers that you are holding while waiting for their decision. It's much easier to only notify rejections on a as-requested basis until they are ready to send out the mass decisions. 

So, it's unlikely that your phone call caused you to be rejected (unless you were super rude to them or something) and after taking your call, the person probably took some time to confirm your status and let you know of the decision.

Again, perhaps your field has have an appeal procedure. But I just want to let you know that if you tried to do something like:

38 minutes ago, Dansir said:

 I am going to Hunter's MSW Information session later today to plead my case with administration.

then you will likely be blacklisted for future application seasons. I know of people that have been banned from campus for repeatedly doing things like this. It would be completely inappropriate to plead your appeal case at something like a degree program info session. Even if your program has a formal appeal procedure, then you should definitely follow that instead.

[Dansir]

42 minutes ago, TakeruK said:

Does your field and/or this specific program have some sort of formal or official appeal procedure? This would be very uncommon in my field, and it's actually would be very normal for someone to get a rejection after inquiring about their status. The reason is that most programs would make their interview/short lists and notify those applicants. But they wouldn't automatically notify the rest of the applicants because 1) there are way more of them and 2) it is extra work when they already have a lot of work to schedule and conduct interviews. Most programs wait until they have made final decisions (or maybe even after the accepted students all have made their own decisions) before sending out rejections. However, if an applicant calls or emails about their status, they might be able to give out an earlier decision and let you know that you have been rejected sooner rather than later. They do this as a courtesy, since they are assuming if you are emailing/calling to ask, you might have other offers that you are holding while waiting for their decision. It's much easier to only notify rejections on a as-requested basis until they are ready to send out the mass decisions. 

So, it's unlikely that your phone call caused you to be rejected (unless you were super rude to them or something) and after taking your call, the person probably took some time to confirm your status and let you know of the decision.

Again, perhaps your field has have an appeal procedure. But I just want to let you know that if you tried to do something like:

then you will likely be blacklisted for future application seasons. I know of people that have been banned from campus for repeatedly doing things like this. It would be completely inappropriate to plead your appeal case at something like a degree program info session. Even if your program has a formal appeal procedure, then you should definitely follow that instead.

No not that is visibly evident on their website or on the application page. Thats exactly what they did is that they put me on the priority of the list, at Hunter they have a initial facilitator/reviewer look over the applications and if they can't make a decision it gets sent to someone higher up.

And I was pretty explicit about the other offers on the table.

And i think I made it unclear but i am attending the information session as a prospective transfer student, I wouldn't be pleading my case at the info session. But if what you said is true, I am best to leave it be and move on. I don't think its appropriate to even bring up the admissions decision today let alone try to meet with a admissions representative