[civsa] "Why wasn't I admitted?"

[Boehm, Andrew]

Hello Emily,

We get and take these calls daily.  Although we don't deny until our last
possible notification date (March 15), only defer.  Either way the answer
is similar, honest and usually goes something like this.

We do a holistic review, so it's not just one or two statistics although
those are a part of the review process.  We also have an extremely
competitive set of applications.  It's getting harder to gain admission
every year.  Our first goal in reviewing applicants is trying to determine
if a student is going to be successful here and we use an enormous amount
of data to try and get this right. Retention rate is far more important to
us than acceptance rate.

By the time I get here their head is usually spinning from not getting
their, "it's your ACT score..." answer.

I am sure you get an incredible large number of applications so I've simply
resorted to "we just can't accept everyone," answer.  They don't like that
but they are already not happy with your university and simply won't be
happy with any answer you give.

This is my experience and a great question for this thread.  I'm interested
to see other responses.

Andrew

*Andrew Boehm*

Associate Director - Campus Visits and Events

Miami University Office of Admission

301 S. Campus Avenue - 41 CAB

Oxford, OH 45056

513-529-2580

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Emily Crosby <crosby at admissions.rutgers.edu
> wrote:

> Hello CIVSA!
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> I just wanted to reach out and get a feel for which institutions out there
> entertain “Why Deny” questions from applicants. Do you often receive these
> sorts of calls and inquiries and if so, how do you handle them? Does anyone
> have a “we don’t answer these inquiries” disclaimer somewhere? Do you take
> every phone call like we do? I’d love to get a sense for how other people
> handle this one!
>
> Thank you!
> Emily Crosby
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