Anonymous wrote:Rudy

LOL! Bright spot in my day.

Anonymous wrote:Dear Admissions Officer,
I wanted to correct an error in my application. My last name is actually spelled R-O-C-K-N-E.
I apologize for the error.

Sincerely,
Larla Rockne

This post wins DCUM. Drop the mic, PP!

Dear Admissions Officer,
I wanted to correct an error in my application. My last name is actually spelled R-O-C-K-N-E.
I apologize for the error.

Sincerely,
Larla Rockne

A wait list or a deferral, maybe but and outright decline seems highly unlikely without a missing puzzle piece (wrong info sent, etc)

But . . . with finances as they are and a school maybe seeing a drop in commitments? I'd take the kid only if full pay, pocket the cash, and cut them loose the following year if GPA says they can't cut it.

That said, I cannot see ND doing this under any circumstances except a major financial donation.

Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Deep Springs college

Not surprising for this forum. There are people here who say all of the DMV schools are regional, unknowns outside the area. There are lots of people here who are pretty ignorant about colleges.

You don’t have to be mean about it. It is tiny and weird and for a very specific kid. Sure they go on to greet schools but isn’t a conventional college.

But, wouldn't it have made more sense, instead of telling everyone you hadn't heard of it, just to google it?

To be fair, it's website doesn't exactly tell you it's arguably more prestigious than Harvard. Looks like another work college like Warren Wilson or Sterling. Deep Springs and associated ventures (like TASP) are very secretive.

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Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Deep Springs college

Not surprising for this forum. There are people here who say all of the DMV schools are regional, unknowns outside the area. There are lots of people here who are pretty ignorant about colleges.

You don’t have to be mean about it. It is tiny and weird and for a very specific kid. Sure they go on to greet schools but isn’t a conventional college.

But, wouldn't it have made more sense, instead of telling everyone you hadn't heard of it, just to google it?

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Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Deep Springs college

Not surprising for this forum. There are people here who say all of the DMV schools are regional, unknowns outside the area. There are lots of people here who are pretty ignorant about colleges.

You don’t have to be mean about it. It is tiny and weird and for a very specific kid. Sure they go on to greet schools but isn’t a conventional college.

Agree. I know several kids who have “upgraded” to T15 schools.

The best way to try for that is to go to another college and have a stellar performance in their coursework. Then apply for a transfer after completing 2 years. Pretty much every college will have slots available for junior and senior levels due to students dropping out for various reasons. You just have to make sure the courses are transferable and would satisfy whatever degree they want to earn, otherwise you’re tacking more years on. If that doesn’t work for Harvard for credit transfer reasons, there are other ivies and T10 schools where it would.

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of Deep Springs college

Not surprising for this forum. There are people here who say all of the DMV schools are regional, unknowns outside the area. There are lots of people here who are pretty ignorant about colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes! Try to apply as a transfer. It worked for our daughter into her first choice Ivy, which rejected her as a HS senior.

That's good to know. So you can actually transfer to Ivy?

It is feasible, in theory at least -- because the Ivies for the most part don't have any required courses. So a transfer student wouldn't have to make up for any coursework not completed at the previous school.

Hey dummy, ever heard to the famous core at Columbia?

"The Core Curriculum is the set of common courses required of all undergraduates and considered the necessary general education for students, irrespective of their choice in major."

https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/core

But you ignore facts and keep typing your political BS. That's what works best for people like you.

Never heard of Deep Springs college

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible to turn a rejection letter into an college acceptance?

Well, I've heard of one instance where water was turned into wine.

you must have deeply internalized the thread about Liberty University, and some of that stuck with you....

Rudy