<p>For a university I really want to attend, I messaged my state's college representative (i.e. the person who reads the applications for my region) a couple of weeks ago. This school is too far away from home for me to visit, so I had hoped that meeting the representative at my high school would be a good way to show my interest, get to know more about the college, make a positive impression, etc. But since I have to go somewhere else at the scheduled time for the visit to my school, I asked if it would be possible for me to speak to the representative at a different time the same day. I received no response at all from him.</p>
<p>Should I just show up earlier than the scheduled time and ask if the representative has time to talk to me? I feel like that would be rude, but I don't know what else I should do. Or I could simply not attend the representative's visit to my school at all...</p>
<p>Get on a phone and call. It doesn’t seem professional that he hasn’t responded but weird things do happen, like your email stopped as spam. A phone call is more personal. You could also get college/guidance counselor at your school to contact…might get more immediate reply.</p>
<p>edited to add: probably not the issue, but be sure you have an email address that is professional, not something like doglover or twocute.</p>
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<p>I think he should get an e-mail address for each school. Something like Harvardbound, UCLAorBust, etc.</p>
<p>When did you email them? Often, profs or college reps will get a lot of emails at certain times of day/week, and at those times, your email is more likely to get lost in a sea of other emails, or read and then forgotten because they became distracted. Definitely call, and next time, email after a week if you haven’t heard back, as by that point, it usually means they’ve either lost your original one, or forgotten that they’d meant to reply.</p>