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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

Recently, following a performance of Hamilton attended by Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence, a representative of the cast read the following message:Vice-president elect Pence, we welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us at Hamilton: An American Musical. We really do.We, sir, are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents — or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir.But we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and work on behalf of all of us. All of us.We truly thank you for sharing this show — this wonderful American story told by a diverse group of men, women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.In response, the President-Elect took to Twitter, not once, but twice:Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.This should not happen!…The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!Does that sound like a president who is interested in “unifying the nation”, or even understands what that means?If what Trump means by “unifying the nation” is “endorse and support me and everything I mean to do without qualm or appeal”, then it’s fairly clear why those who opposed Trump don’t accept it. It would be un-American, for one thing.

It was my wedding.A series of things went haywire.My hair was ‘unfinished’. My stylist, a younger friend of mine, didn't show up on the day of my wedding. I believe she was going through something difficult on that day.My period came on the morning of my wedding. Of course I had earlier planned the date so it wouldn't clash with it, but the stress of everything brought it down. So you guess how my wedding night went. 🙄My cake. When the MC announced that it was time to cut the cake at the reception, I and my husband looked at the door awaiting the glorious 4-tier cake we ordered… Instead, a panicky usher ran to me to explain that the cake had gotten crushed en route to the venue. I was so tired, that I just smiled, and waited for the next order of event.I got married in Kazan, Russia. My parents couldn't make it to my wedding. Also, they forgot the date, and I had to tell them the next day that I had gotten married the previous day.You want more?…OK, those are the major things, but that day was a remarkable day in my life.While waiting in the car before entering the church, I invited the driver of our ride to witness the joining. He was a typical young Russian man, probably not a religious fanatic. He told me it was the first time he had ever been in a church, and he said the ceremony was one of the most beautiful things he had ever witnessed.Although things didn't go down the way we had planned them, nothing really mattered to me other than the knowledge that I got to legally and biblically be joined with the love of my life.And our 3rd anniversary is in 9 days! Yay!Wow! Thank you all for the upvotes and comments!Edit:I'm really grateful for all the lovely comments and wishes. Bless your hearts!Thank you Imai Kaori for translating this answer into Japanese! It was interesting and beautiful to look at.To the questions on why I was in Russia, it's pretty much covered in my answer below.Adewunmi Okunola's answer to What is something good that arose from bad circumstances?