<p>Colleges get enough email and dont want more... I am basing this off conversations with admission officers at schools that I cannot disclose for privacy reasons.... </p>
<p>Most top schools get tens of thousands of applications and every year and a few thousand emails every few days, if not every day... </p>
<p>You can imagine that these departments have a hard time keeping up with soo much traffic and hence dont take nicely to people who increase their work. </p>
<p>Hence I wanted to warn everyone about a company that does exactly this.... It has a really nice marketing campaign that gets applicants to email/submit their interest to colleges but as admissions officers put it - "no reputable school would bother with such interaction.. we get thousands of emails every day.. we dont want more of this..."</p>
<p>Any thoughts or views on this front are welcome</p>
<p>Dont be fooled by it.. they do a really nice marketing job, but they need to rethink their interaction as they certainly haven't asked college admissions what they think...</p>
<p>Dont waste your time or your colleges time either - it may be counterproductive</p>
<p>No idea what the company is, but I called up all of my applied-for colleges to ask pretty trivial questions I couldn't turn to anyone else for the answer to -- 4 out of 5 were super-friendly and helped me above and beyond expectations. I've no idea what YOU been doin' wrong, bud.</p>
<p>Feel free to call a college if you have a real question (I did that with an application problem and my schools were SUPER friendly), but I hightly doubt that admissions officers who are filing through 20,000 apps in one year are going to be too happy about answering tons of trivial phone calls.</p>
<p>I'm only a junior, and I emailed a few colleges.
what left me an impression is Cornell, everytime they responded within a day.
Penn state responded in 2 weeks, and some other institutes responded in 3~5 days. </p>
<p>keep in mind I'm not even an applicant, yet they still respond my questions at such a quick pace.
So...I think most colleges are willing. Even if they aren't, it's their job I suppose.</p>
<p>Email has become a perfectly acceptable form of business communication, and in my profession, somebody who did not promptly respond to serious email would not be performing their job.</p>
<p>Ok ok let me clarify.... I hear that colleges do reply to emails, its a perfect form of business communication, its their job to reply and that they are pretty friendly.... </p>
<p>Right.... </p>
<p>I agree... but what im trying to say is that this constitutes the few thousand emails a college gets every couple of days and that there is nothing wrong with it.... However I am warning you that if you use a product like e-mails sent through a company, you are simply giving them more busy work to take care off and they are not going to like it..... this resonates with what mochamaven said and thats why I am saying that you have to think of new and innovative ways to reach out to colleges - check out my post titled “the truth about colleges- what colleges want off you” on this front.. how does this sound.. any comments/questions</p>
<p>CC's guidelines don't allow the names of competing sites or services to be named on our site. That's why the company's name was deleted. This thread has made its point, and I'm closing it now to prevent the company's being named again.</p>