<p>I sent an email to Amherst admissions about 3 days ago but the email is still not replied to. Should I send another email again? I know it’s summer, why are they not replying my email. what should i do?</p>
<p>Pointdexter, I sent a couple emails to the admissions office and my son sent one, and in each case they went unanswered. I had the very same thing happen at several other schools, too, so I guess it's pretty common. I also called the Amherst admissions office twice and someone took a message and told me I'd be called back, and I never was.</p>
<p>My experience with the financial aid office has been better, and they have responded to emails.</p>
<p>My advice: If you don't hear back, call admissions with your question. If you're asked to leave a message and you don't get a call back, then call again and either talk to whomever you need to talk to at that time or ask when is a good time to call --when they would be directly available-- and call back then.</p>
<p>I guess with thousands of applications you can't really expect they'd be able to respond to individual emails.</p>
<p>Unless it's very urgent, give it a few more days. Three days ago was a Saturday, so yesterday was the first chance they would have had to respond to it. I imagine they aren't at full staff and they still have to deal with tours and info sessions, so it's reasonable for them to not be able to respond as soon as they get an email. They should get back to you within the week. If they don't, try calling.</p>
<p>Hmm..my email is still not replied to. It is not an urgent question, but it's an important question. Should I send my queries to individual admission officers instead?</p>
<p>Sometimes a good approach (anywhere) is to find out the office hours as posted on the website, then phone in about 5 minutes after they open in the morning. If they're busy then, try again in 5 or l0 minutes, as sometimes they have to empty their message answering machine first thing each morning.</p>
<p>That's often the least busy time, Secretaries can tell you when and how to email more senior people, and sometimes the people are right there stirring coffee, before their first meeting of the day. </p>
<p>That's not specific to Amherst, just life in general.</p>