<p>I've read before on this site somewhere (I don't remember where) that some prospies email the admissions counselor for their area to get some brownie points...
I kind of want to do that but I don't know what I would talk to them/ask them about... I don't want to ask them stupid questions and annoy them or anything like that.
Any ideas? Or is this a bad idea to begin with...
Just curious! :)</p>
<p>If you have ssomething legitimate to talk to them about, then by all means contact them. Admissions reps have seen and heard it all. They will see right through someone trying to get brownie points by emailing them out of the blue for no reason. And it may backfire and have a negative affect. I wouldn’t risk it. Just be yourself and don’t try to game the system. That is the best advice. :)</p>
<p>And this is useful only with colleges where they invest heavily into recruiting individual students. These tend to be lesser known schools, or schools not on people’s radar. They have to aggressively take note of people who show interest. Like what schools? Go to your HS college fair and there’ll be colleges you’ve never heard of. Speak to their reps – and you’d think you made a friend for life.</p>
<p>If you’re speaking of top 25 schools, you can forget this tactic. They don’t pay any attn to this stuff: they don’t need to.</p>
<p>I think there’s one more case in which this might be a useful tactic: a college or university that really interests you, but you look a little overqualified for on paper.</p>
<p>There are institutions that practice yield protection: they reject some applicants who they think are using them just as safeties, and completely unlikely to attend if they are admitted somewhere more prestigious. My kid will actually be attending a university that we all initially thought of as a safety. She didn’t want to be a victim of the “Tufts Syndrome” (NOTE: this wasn’t actually at Tufts, which I think has a lot less need to practice yield protection than it used to have), so she showed a great deal of interest in the place. (This university does track applicants’ demonstrated interest.) She’ll be attending with a hefty scholarship.</p>
<p>i won’t send her anything in that case.
thanks! :)</p>