I plan on emailing the admission counselors in order to ask questions that I have. I plan on making it formal, but how formal should I make the emails?
Specifically, would I write “Dear _____ Admissions” or would I use the name of my regional counselor?
Are you emailing the individual regional counselor directly, or sending your questions to a general inbox?
Do not ask questions that can be easily answered on the college website or in the viewbook.
If you are sending the email directly to your regional counselor then address it to him/her. If you are sending it to a general admissions email than use a more generic greeting.
Agree with the above, don’t send am email just for the sake of sending an email. Be sure you have a question that can’t easily be answered by looking at the school website.
@CTScoutmom I would be emailing specific regional counselor (I went through for every university that I had questions about and found my corresponding admissions counselor).
@TomSrOfBoston What’s the view book? And specifically for “Why ____” supplements, is the website really the best place to find information specific to that school? I find lots of info about majors and housing and events etc etc, but it takes me hours to find a piece of information that is truly unique to that school (given the school isn’t Princeton with their senior thesis or Swarthmore with their scholars program or some other notable exception).
@happy1 Would “Dear” and “Thank you,” suffice for greetings and closings or would that sound weird?
Dear and Thank you would be fine.
It is up to you for answer the Why? question An admissions officer is not going to tell you why.