<p>SkyGirl,</p>
<p>If you are not within about a three hour drive from campus, admissions people don't exactly expect you to have as many visits as those who live minutes away. Still, you should have been contacted for an off-campus alumni interview, provided an alum lives in your area.</p>
<p>Your teachers allowed you to read your recommendations? I only ask because that's usually not the case. When students waive the right to inspect their recommendation letters, teachers are typically more forthright and honest with their comments.</p>
<p>If the new EC report has additions not present in the copy you sent previously, then by all means, send it in. Admissions officers are making decisions on RD people everyday, but in case they've yet to reach your application, it couldn't hurt to send it in. Did you include that year long eco project on your first draft? If not, then I'd definitely give admissions officers a quick update.</p>
<p>Yes, Neuroscience is a really cool area of study. So much research has yet to be done in the field, so the lecture topics are always interesting and relevant. Haha...the lab rats/mice aren't that bad. Thus far, I've worked with mice and pigeons in the psych department, and it's actually a lot of fun.</p>
<p>Getting back to the question at hand, if what you say is true about your application being put together "rather hastily," I'd be a bit concerned. However, only you know of the quality of your essay and overall application package. With your SAT scores as impressive as they are and fine GPA (with a few APs and Honors thrown in), you are square in the running statistics-wise. </p>
<p>You are the kind of applicant (not "person"...please keep that in mind) that, from the sounds of things, might get lost in the shuffle. SAT scores are important, yes, but certainly not everything at a school like Lafayette. To be totally honest, nothing really "wows" me about you as an applicant. Conversely, nothing would make me want to place your application in the reject pile, either. If you couldn't already tell, I'm torn. </p>
<p>I really wish you had taken the opportunity to get to campus to have an on-campus interview. I just feel that admissions officers would have a much easier time accepting you on the basis of you as a person rather than as a pile of paper shoved into a mangled manila folder.</p>
<p>Did I just make any sense, or has my mindless babbling taken me for a ride to the land where language fails to convey even the simplest of thoughts? </p>
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<li>Justin</li>
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