<p>I'm an international student applying from Bangladesh... I requested information from all these colleges (all liberal arts) but am really unhappy with the pace at which I'm receiving everything... is this a local problem with my postal office or do all internationals receive it a bit TOO late?? I mean, as internationals, we ARE supposed to receive them later than those applying from the States but I'm beginning to get frustrated coz the college i'm doing ED to has STILL not sent me anything and the deadline for the fin aid forms are 2 weeks away!</p>
<p>I eventually had to print out the forms and I'm not too happy about that.... would have preferred filling in the nice, hard-copy forms colleges usually mail.
Ah well...</p>
<p>So this is to ask you guys... what's the approximate number of days/weeks you had to wait before receiving the viewbook/information/forms you requested??? For me, Middlebury's viewbook came withing a week (or was it less than a week?) after the request and I was so impressed...</p>
<p>Also, do any of you have experience of mailing admissions offices and waiting for ages (alright, not ages, but a pretty long time) before getting any replies? I asked some really important questions to this college and I've been checking my mail every few hours for the last few days and STILL haven't had any reply!!!</p>
<p>I'm not being impatient... just getting disheartened because it feels more and more that the colleges I like the most like to pretend that I don't exist... :(</p>
<p>well it depends.....but I requested the information during summer, meaning the apps weren't ready only by late august.....so I got them pretty late. I have the app for the univ I'm making ED, but don't have the ones for fin aid either. I'll just print them.</p>
<p>I was rather impressed with Middlebury, too, and Dickinson and Harvey Mudd and some other universities I requested brochures/info from. However, I did notice a faint correlation to the rate of information reaching you from private and public universities, especially during the summer months. I think most university post gets more priority in mail offices than regular letters/postcards, but it also depends on the time you ask them, and the post routine in your own country.</p>
<p>About emails, some are REALLY slow, but others are quite quick. That, also, depends on what type of questions you ask. If it's a oft-asked question, they should know reply quickly (again, the time difference makes things horrible! :mad:), but if it's a pretty obscure question, they might have to do some "research". </p>
<p>I was late getting some forms from one university so I re-emailed them and told them on "this and such date I requested the application packet, but it still hasn't reached me yet and it was one month ago". Keep a record of when you email them, especially if your email doesn't have an automatic "Send all emails to Sent Folder" as Yahoo! or GMail does.</p>
<p>3-4 weeks?? eeks, that's a looong time... my questions to the college are about early decision and fin aid for internationals... i certainly hope they don't take that long coz i'll have to DHL my ED application (rest i can't afford to DHL... i hear the rates are astronomical?)</p>
<p>i really like it when colleges mail back as soon as it is possible. my boyfriend was telling me that princeton replies to emails pretty fast and the person replying sounds really nice over the emails... i hate 1 line rude replies... i once felt like sending this college a How to Reply An Email 101... but then decided it won't help me much during admissions, will it? ;)</p>