<p>I've been very much in contact with the counselor from my current top choice, and I've read it before, but does being in touch really increase your chances? Is it true that they could potentially remember you when admissions roll around, perhaps put it in a good word for you? If anyone has anecdotes, or statistics better yet, that would be great!</p>
<p>I think so. My admissions counselor actually said hello to me at my college acceptance preview days a few weeks ago. It was pretty cool she remembered me out of all the applications she must have read.</p>
<p>It’s debatable whether it will help your chances, but it certainly won’t hurt to keep in touch with admissions, as long as you’re not really annoying. </p>
<p>For waitlist admissions though, keeping in touch will definitely help because the colleges are more willing to accept people who will likely attend rather than people who aren’t very interested.</p>
<p>At lesser competitive schools it can help a lot, not so much at the highly selective.</p>
<p>Nope, it does not work like that! You contact college admission counselors to inquire about college and seek their guidance. This will not give you an upper hand at admission. You are judged based on school work, good G.P.A, good SAT/ACT score, essay etc, and not for your social skills :D. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>All I know is what the admissions people at Wellesley told us when my daughter and I were there for junior open campus a few weeks ago–yes, it does help, but only if it’s the applicant making the contact. They don’t want to hear from parents and they don’t want to hear students asking questions they can easily resolve by looking online! </p>
<p>I imagine that it’s good to talk to the admissions people at small LACs (as long as you’re not pestering them), but I doubt they’d remember you at huge schools where admission is largely a numbers game.</p>
<p>Rezamp, no offense, but I strongly disagree. </p>
<p>After my first visit to the college I’m now going to be attending this fall, I met the admissions officer, and over the course of my application process, I spoke with him several times about not just questions about the college. </p>
<p>He also specifically told me that he was looking for well-balanced students, who would contribute to the college’s community, rather than just smart students who would stay holed up in their rooms all day.</p>
<p>So in response to your question, yes I absolutely think it will help! (but like a few others have said, make sure you aren’t pestering. Just start out talking about your strong interest in the college, and ask a few questions, and then you can start talking about your application, and maybe schedule a visit to take a tour and talk in person.)</p>
<p>It may help but you don’t know for sure if that admissions officer will be the one reading your application (unless you are contacting the one for your geographic region).</p>
<p>But it would have to be some serious contact. Like emailing/calling for a few questions won’t make much of a difference.</p>
<p>Depends on school. Davidson is highly selective LAC and they tell you upfront that they track the number of times you visit, speak to counselor at college fair or meet/greets. Duke outright said they don’t care…makes no difference.</p>
<p>Actually scmom12, I was deferred ED at Duke, and I had a good, but not particularly outstanding, first semester of high school, but I got admitted during the RD round. I truly believe what got be accepted was my monthly correspondence with my admissions counselor to make sure that she knew me and that she knew of my extreme interest in the school.</p>
<p>@ ClarkU2016</p>
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<li>Does Stanford show preference in the admission process for students who have demonstrated interest by visiting, calling and emailing?
Not at all. Contacting the Admission Office is neither a requirement nor an advantage in our admission process. We offer campus tours and information sessions to provide you with the information you need to make an informed college choice, not to evaluate you. And we welcome calls and emails for the same reason. Please do not feel compelled to contact us to demonstrate your interest in Stanford; we know by the very fact of your applying that you are seriously interested in Stanford. We don’t keep records of prospective student contacts with our office.
([FAQ</a> : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/site/faq/index.html#faq_1_1]FAQ”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/site/faq/index.html#faq_1_1))</li>
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<p>I am talking in terms of big universities and this is what I found in Stanford’s website. By saying social skills I mean your contact with the counselor and not your general social skills. In that way I totally agree with you. Universities do look for confident and extrovert students :)</p>
<p>You’ll get admission by committee. Knowing a counselor can push you over when all other qualifications pan out. A student of mine was close with a ucla counselor this past year. But his gpa just did not meet the requirements and he was rejected.</p>
<p>Make sure you get everything else right. Don’t rely on connections, but by all means foster those connections.</p>
<p>Craig</p>
<p>shaq395 - Interesting. My D accepted to Duke, we did one tour (where they told us they didn’t track interest)…didn’t attend cause offered no money. If contacting them helped you that’s great. What this may point out is that if there is a school you are passionate about attending, it would be good to talk to some alumns who can give you the real scoop…maybe what we were told at tour was “company line” and the inside scoop is that it does help. My other D is at a school that requires interviews with either admissions or alumni in your area. She did it with alumni and I personally think it really helped and was definitely considered. Every school is different. Good luck at Duke</p>
<p>Tulane told us straight out that they consider that amount of interest you have shown and if you have had ongoing communications with them when determining admitance.</p>
<p>Posts #9 and #14 are just evidence of Waverly’s post #4.</p>
<p>It depends on the school in question.</p>
<p>I would say that even at top schools, being in touch with your admissions officer can be beneficial. If you are one of the many borderline cases, and you have had meaningful conversations (as in, questions that aren’t annoying and that cannot be easily answered on the internet) with the admissions officer in charge of your region, it can put a friendly face to the name. Even if it’s not the school’s policy to track the number of communications you had with the school, I would think there’s a subconscious boost if the admissions officer thinks of your application as a person and not as a piece of paper (and we know that admissions is as much an art as a science).</p>