I think that too, and not just because I am one of the unlucky older students. I just don't understand why they would want all their students to be 23-25, which is what you are going to get by putting in that requirement. They would get a more balanced and mature class by having a range of ages, but people my age have mortgages and jobs, which precludes going to school full-time, and so I doubt they will end up with many experienced (i.e. old, ha ha) students.
I really just posted the letter so everyone else could go home and haunt their mailboxes, if they weren't already 😉 And I am not too upset, except about the money, since I applied to 4 other schools, none of which has rejected me yet, so that's good.
Oh as long as I am updating, I talked to someone at IL in Nov. as well, because I was trying to get them to count my Biophysics class in my science GPA. I did not win that battle (why? what subject _should_ it go under, sheesh!) but the person I talked to said it didn't matter since I was past "Phase I", which was the academic review portion. So if you haven't heard anything from IL yet, I would take it as a positive.
