On the other hand, if the student has a genuine question that can’t be answered by the college’s web site, sending an email to the admissions office makes sense.
I imagine that quite a few kids at my son’s high school did this when the school unexpectedly and suddenly dropped German from their curriculum because of a budget cut. There were kids who had taken German 1 and 2 and could not continue to German 3 – which is a problem if you intend to apply to schools that require or recommend three or four years of a single foreign language. I suspect that most of those kids sent e-mails to multiple schools explaining their problem and asking whether they would still be eligible for admission. And that seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.