I got rejected from MIT. Would it be frowned upon if I sent an appeal letter to the MIT dean and the admissions office?
Short answer, there is no such thing as an “appeal letter” for admissions.
The question really is, “I was rejected by MIT. If I ask them politely, will they tell me why I was rejected?”
Let’s pretend you did. Here is your answer:
Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in MIT. We appreciate your effort in submitting an application that reflected your personality and qualifications, and the effort of those who recommended you. Frankly, this year we had a TON of qualified applicants. Last year we thought we got a boatload of qualified applicants, and this year we got even more, and we don’t have any more beds for freshmen than last year. In fact, we’ve been accepting roughly the same number of incoming freshmen since before there were electronic calculators! MIT’s campus is landlocked and there is only so much space for dorms. Plus, MIT’s yield rate has increased dramatically, so even when we added new dorms, we couldn’t increase the number of students we accepted. For every applicant we accepted, we rejected maybe 10(?) who were great people and capable of being successful at MIT. We just didn’t have the room! For the Class of 2023, we received 21,312 applications and we made 1,427 offers of admission (6.7%). That led to 1,107 students enrolled—a yield rate of nearly 78%. 1,107 is about how many dorm beds we have for freshmen. Back in the slide rule era, we had room for about 900 freshmen, but the yield rate was lower, so we were admitting about the same number of applicants as today, maybe even more back then, although we get 5 times as many applicants now. This year, we accepted the 1,427 or so applicants that we felt would provide the best possible freshman class. We’re sorry, but you weren’t one of them. A few of our applicants just didn’t have the qualifications or were bad matches for our mission. But chances are you are a great kid and we just liked other applicants more. And chances are that you were accepted at one or more universities that might be better matches for you. We hope you attend a school that’s ideal for you and do well there and throughout your future. Good luck! Your future is what you make it.
Respectfully,
Tim the Beaver
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Short answer, there is no such thing as an “appeal letter” for admissions.
The question really is, “I was rejected by MIT. If I ask them politely, will they tell me why I was rejected?”
Let’s pretend you did. Here is your answer:
Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in MIT. We appreciate your effort in submitting an application that reflected your personality and qualifications, and the effort of those who recommended you. Frankly, this year we had a TON of qualified applicants. Last year we thought we got a boatload of qualified applicants, and this year we got even more, and we don’t have any more beds for freshmen than last year. In fact, we’ve been accepting roughly the same number of incoming freshmen since before there were electronic calculators! MIT’s campus is landlocked and there is only so much space for dorms. Plus, MIT’s yield rate has increased dramatically, so even when we added new dorms, we couldn’t increase the number of students we accepted. For every applicant we accepted, we rejected maybe 10(?) who were great people and capable of being successful at MIT. We just didn’t have the room! For the Class of 2023, we received 21,312 applications and we made 1,427 offers of admission (6.7%). That led to 1,107 students enrolled—a yield rate of nearly 78%. 1,107 is about how many dorm beds we have for freshmen. Back in the slide rule era, we had room for about 900 freshmen, but the yield rate was lower, so we were admitting about the same number of applicants as today, maybe even more back then, although we get 5 times as many applicants now. This year, we accepted the 1,427 or so applicants that we felt would provide the best possible freshman class. We’re sorry, but you weren’t one of them. A few of our applicants just didn’t have the qualifications or were bad matches for our mission. But chances are you are a great kid and we just liked other applicants more. And chances are that you were accepted at one or more universities that might be better matches for you. We hope you attend a school that’s ideal for you and do well there and throughout your future. Good luck! Your future is what you make it.
Respectfully,
Tim the Beaver
©️ Quora
✍️ Dm: @ton_adres
✔️ @fulltuition