After being declined

[allamerican]

This is my first posting and unfortunately i am writing it after i got declined from IUB i've just got a question,, what if few students declined their offers? do you think they reconsider declined applications?

Ps: Their reason to decline me is that they got so many applications this year.

Good luck to all,

Sam

[lotf629]

Hi All-American,

I really hate to be the bearer of bad news, but sadly, the answer to your question is "no." What happens is that most schools keep wait lists. If a lot of students turn them down, they take students off the wait list; they don't reconsider the rejected apps. Schools that don't keep wait lists will content themselves with a smaller class, rather than invite people whom they have already denied. So, the answer to your question is unfortunately no. I hope you have some other excellent offers this year or a chance to reapply next year.

[rising_star]

Sometimes people get rejected then accepted months later. This is definitely far from the norm.

[allamerican]

Thanks guys for your replies, i knew it, but you know sometimes you try to look for any rays of hope. I applied to different schools too, but i don't know why i really wanted badly to go to the one that declined me,,, i just asked because this school doesn't have waiting lists as far as i know. I guess what screwed my app up is the GRE test.