<p>A couple of days ago, my D got an email from one of her applying schools.
The sender was a team consists of teachers of a certain school subject at the school.
They introduced their activities at school and asked my D some general questions about the subject. How can we interprete this email at this sensitive(?) time?
We got a few similar emails and mails from other schools before the deadline of applications, though.</p>
<p>I doubt it means anything significant or is an indicator of your D’s faith in regards to admission. It’s most likely an email the system sends to all applicants by default. In any case, if they’re asking your D questions, she should answer them, but I don’t think it’s anything out of the ‘automated system email’ norm.</p>
<p>preppydude why would you assume that is dosnt mean anything? it obviously means something if they bothered to send it.</p>
<p>BUMP. same thing here. :)</p>
<p>@Deerhotch, I didn’t say it didn’t mean anything. I said I don’t think it means anything in regards to her admission. I said they probably sent it to all applicants, and as the OP said it’s a sensitive time for applicants and their families, so it could mean anything, but it probably doesn’t indicate a decision.</p>
<p>I think the poster did not give enough information as to “what type of questions” the school asked, or if the school was a traditional boarding school. More information would help. At this juncture most schools are too busy narrowing the field to be sending out mass emails asking for a response without cause. In fact, if they don’t have the information they need now, I’m curious how they’re planning to make a coherent decision.</p>
<p>At this moment, an email from a school most likely means that the school is interested in your D, and would like more information to confirm its decision. I would reply supplying all the information they have asked for. Some schools are known to have requested second trimester grades from a few students in the past.</p>
<p>^^Agree with Dakshina. My son got emails “brokered” by the admissions counselor from department heads and coaches at two schools where he interviewed last year, demonstrating interest. I think they are definitely interested in the candidate and are trying to make a decision but would like additional info.</p>
<p>In his case we didn’t supply the additional CD they wanted on his playing of an instrument and he still got in; in one case he provided additional info on sports record and didn’t get in; in the first case again, he submitted additional short stories he had written to English dept head where he got in. These were both HADES schools.</p>
<p>@Exie:
They asked if my D has involved in any club or team at her school, has done any outside of school sessions, has participated in any contests, etc. Actually, my D does not like the subject even though she has gotten As from her school and nearly perfect score from SSAT. And, the email was from one of HADES.</p>
<p>@Dakshina:
Thanks for your advice. I’ll check whether my D replied or not.</p>
<p>When I began the admission process, my inbox was swamped with emails from program heads. I got emails from a ton of department heads, music teachers, club heads, and coaches. Did you recently begin the admission process? That might explain why you got an email from that school.</p>
<p>I think usually interview would trigger the flood of emails/mails from different departments. Then some schools are slower than others. If you had the interview not long ago, then that might expalin it. If this is the “second round” - a round after the post interview mail flood, then that’s something unusual.</p>
<p>My D had an interview with the school in the Fall. Before application deadlines, she got bunch of emails and mails from schools. However, this is the first correspondence from school after 1/15 excluding application completed notice.
I don’t weigh this too much and will see what happens on 3/10.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity…how many of you or your kids got “floods” of emails after the interview? Our son didn’t get anything, other than the typical Christmas card and follow-up note from the AO after the interview…well, a couple of emails from a coach whom we had contacted first. What triggers the flood?</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten any either…other than mass mailing/emailing :(</p>
<p>Platini,</p>
<p>If they’re proactively asking for additional information at this stage (i.e. during the admissions council decision meetings) it means you’ve made it through a first cut and they’re giving your app a serious look. It’s not a guarantee, but it’s promising.</p>
<p>If they are asking about outside activities, it means they’re looking to broaden her app and fill in some blanks.</p>
<p>Good luck. A few weeks and counting. You’ve got a great perspective on the whole thing.</p>
<p>I think I got the same email based on Platini’s description. I am interpreting this as they want to know if you are still interested in them based on your expressed interest during the interview and that it hasn’t changed after going through the process of submitting all of your applications. Basically they want to know you didn’t fall in love with y school after interviewing at x school (yield point of view).</p>
<p>What about if you received letters from department heads that didn’t ask questions but instead advertised the subject/sport. For example I got one from the soccer head explaining soccer at the school which sounded quite encouraging, and another explaining and advertising the English department at the school. Do schools send these out to everyone? I thought they did, but then realized that applications are all in already… so they’re on their way on making cuts. </p>
<p>Guess I’m just freaking out. Was just wondering if it was a sign or anything =p</p>
<p>Honestly, I thought that after admissions deadlines there was no communication from the schools. I am sure they don’t want us contacting THEM. Guess that isn’t the case.</p>
<p>My son received about 4 emails from a school that he did NOT apply to about a week before application deadline. Had these emails come in November it might have actually changed his mind about the school. He was on the fence about it. I thought it very odd that they would wait so long to reach out.</p>
<p>Other emails have been very generic. The only personal communication has been in the way of phone calls or letters and that was prior to deadline. </p>
<p>A friend of ours got quite a few calls about her son last year (from 3 different schools) - they were all from coaches that were trying to guage his level of athletics and they were all AFTER the deadline. Apparently, like Exie said he had made it through the first round and was being evaluated further. The mom thought it had to do with financial aid - i.e. if he is good enough to help our team then they would have gotten aid. (Which 2/3 schools offered.)</p>
<p>My son received a congratulatory letter from Deerfield yesterday for earning a perfect score on the SSATs. The letter was was from an AO he had not met with. She asked him to contact her with any academic questions and she would connect him with the appropriate teacher(s).</p>
<p>Deerfield seems to prefer letters over email.</p>
<p>@CKSABS, we probably received the same letter. The weird thing is my d took her SSAT in Nov, and deerfield sent the letter dated on 2/9.</p>
<p>I am somewhat interested in the admission process,and it seems deerfield has some hardwired processes of its own. If we are talking about the communications from bs after the deadlines, all i can say is they do occur, and in some cases I can feel that decisions have already been made for some.</p>