Petition/appeal

[raosen]

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Wanted to start a thread to share experiences around petitioning rejections. Personally, I am puzzled at not receiving an interview from one of my schools, because I thought I would be a really good fit and a qualified candidate. I am not sure whether to even bother though, or how to go about trying to petition or appeal a rejection, and I wanted to see if anyone has tried, or if there was some general idea as to the success rate.

 

[saki0005]

i have heard that this method is pointless and that most schools won't even discuss your file until after this application season is complete. otherwise, you'll get a lot of "our decision still stands, blah blah blah, etc."

 

[Law2Doc]

Wanted to start a thread to share experiences around petitioning rejections. Personally, I am puzzled at not receiving an interview from one of my schools, because I thought I would be a really good fit and a qualified candidate. I am not sure whether to even bother though, or how to go about trying to petition or appeal a rejection, and I wanted to see if anyone has tried, or if there was some general idea as to the success rate.

You may want to do a search -- this thread has come up several times in the last few months. Obviously few find this route to be a viable means to med school acceptance -- if appeals of rejections had a good success rate schools would be inundated with thousands of them.

 

[dopaminophile]

I think all of your fellow applicants can tell you that the process is completely random. Most of us have been turned away from schools where our stats would make us superstars and have been interviewed/accepted places where maybe we didn't deserve it. If only one school is the former case for you, then you're doing excellently. Probably an appeal process would be very drawn out and equally frustrating as the application process--with much less of a chance for success. I heard somewhere on these threads that somebody sued a school for admission and won after a few years in court, but that certainly would be the exception to the rule. If you didn't get in this year, then improving your app and reapplying is your best appeal.

Good luck,

-dope-