<p>I have pretty much narrowed down the choice of which college I will attend to two schools. One of them (we'll call it school a) is pretty much my first choice, but I've been having quite a few problems with it. After waiting quite some time for my decision (longer than we had been told it would take), I called Admissions to see what was going on. They told me I had been accepted, and that I would receive my letter in a week. I was elated! Needless to say, it has been about a month since then. After three weeks of receiving nothing, I called Admissions again, and was told that it had just been mailed (?) and would arrive in a couple of days. A few days later, I received my scholarship offer, and shortly after that, I received a form to "check off and send in with your enrollment papers". I haven't received those papers yet, or any kind of acceptance letter, and of the four or five times I've e-mailed the school since applying, I've only heard back twice (and one reply took so long I decided to call the school instead.) I love this school, but if the Office of Admissions is so disorganized, could that be an indicator of problems in other areas of the school? Has anyone else had these problems with admissions departments?</p>
<p>Oh, and school b (the school I like but is really my second choice) has been great, sending everything on time, with countless letters of congratulations. All the other schools I've been accepted to are the same way, but I really love school a. I just don't know where I should go... the school I really love that has organization issues, or the school I like that has none of said issues? What do you guys think?</p>
<p>You never know how the college's mailroom operates. Bulk mailings sometimes take a while to get through the system.</p>
<p>Some schools bypass their campus mailroom and drive their letters in bins to a post office. It was a funny tradition at one of my schools...we loaded someone's car with the letters and paced about waiting for them to return so we could have a little "letters are out" party. We knew that going through the mailroom would have added a week to the time it would take to get the letters to students.</p>
<p>Disorganized admissions can mean lots of disorganization elsewhere in the college. The best way to find out about this would be to contact current students at the college, including by visiting in person even if that means making an additional trip.</p>
<p>if school a is the best fit, don't worry about a disorganized admissions office. You've essentially dealt with the admissions office. Forget about them now and enjoy the college experience at whichever college fits you best.</p>
<p>Disorganization in the admissions office might be a bad sign, or it might not. Last year, at a major university, due to some crisis or other (chicken pox?) the admissions office was nearly a month late with its admission offers to transfer students. The administration in general there is excellent. (One of the admission officers left the university after this incident.) So as NSM says, you should ask around.</p>
<p>My d's private school has a similar situation with their entire administration - housing, dining, financial aid, it is a mess. Mail takes forever to come (and also to be delivered.) They send invoices with amount due notices and add in little slips of paper to say to subtract your loan if you have one coming and send the net due. If you call to verify the amounts they always are very impatient and rarely have the correct info available.
I wanted to add to my d's ID cash account and called to see if I could add it to her invoice (which they owed me money by the way anyhow) They refused, and said I had to send a check to that specific department. That department took that check and sent it to the invoice people who increased my net due. Then they billed be on the next invoice for the same amount. They told my daughter to come down and pick up the refund for our net due (I use a payment plan and overpaid.) She went to the office, they could not find the check and said maybe they mailed it home (they did not know) So I called again and they said the check had been redeposited into her account and I had a positive balance again. So I just reduced my payment plan (which, ironically, I had wanted to do in the first place months ago but when I called and asked about it I was told very sternly "madam, we are not a bank!"
On the other hand, she enjoys the school, so it is worth the aggravation to me (so far.)
My son on the other hand is at a large state school and their systems are much easier to work with. I can add cash to his ID online! So you never know.</p>
<p>UNC mistakenly informed over a thousand applicants that they had been accepted last month. Does that mean we should all take it as a serious sign about the quality of the University? No, of course not. Go to school A.</p>