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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just heard my friend's friend's DD got rejected from Notre Dame, then she immediately wrote a letter showing strong interest to the school. And the school responded quickly and saying you are the kind of person we are looking for and offered the acceptance. I am not sure if my friend knew the whole picture, but is this even possible?[/quote]

New poster. I can see it happening at a small LAC where a student maybe was waitlisted, made an appeal like you describe, and got off the waitlist quickly. Admissions at those schools (my DC goes to one like that) frankly can be more personal. But at a school the size of Notre Dame it seems unusual, though I can't say impossible. I wonder if your friend had the whole picture; maybe the student wasn't actually rejected in the first place but that letter showing interest was actually part of the application from the start. After all, it's a friend's friend's kid, so it seems like maybe the story got skewed. Is it unlikely that an appeal like that would reverse a rejection? Probably. Is it impossible? Only an admissions officer could say for certain. There is a lot of strange alchemy in admissions. [/quote]

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