<p>A word of advice for those deferred: call the admissions office and ask about things you can do to improve your app. Not only will the admissions officers give you good advice, you will sleep easier knowing what you are up against.</p>
<p>(As a funny side note, even though I sent an email as requested by the deferral letter, they never responded. When I called, I was able to talk to someone right away.)</p>
<p>Thanks zeta.
I just came home thinking about asking what to do with that deferral letter here, on CC, he-he</p>
<p>I will try to call them, though I am extremely intimidated of speaking on the phone - how do they react to people with terrible accents?</p>
<p>Is the advice specific to my specific application, is it it general "how to improve your app" advice? </p>
<p>If it is personal, that seems like a lot of effort on their part, but I'm not complaining!</p>
<p>The advice they gave me was specific to my application.</p>
<p>So they remembered you?</p>
<p>They can open the application folder and look at it when they talk to you :)</p>
<p>I called about 3 hours late today... :(</p>
<p>Apparently they close for new year's at noon on the 29th. I guess I'll have to catch them next week.</p>
<p>Well, just called the admissions office and they said just send the update letter with things you have been doing...</p>
<p>Oh well.</p>
<p>I called and they said they'd call back. Anyone else get this?</p>
<p>Calling, emailing, and writing letters definitely help... hehehe</p>
<p><--- got in off waitlist largely due to my persistence/enthusiasm and help from a certain denizen of this forum ;)</p>
<p>mathwiz: yes, the secretary said someone would call me back. It only took a few hours.</p>
<p>question is how much is too much till they get annoyed?</p>
<p>Hmm... she didn't tell me anything specific about my application.</p>
<p>Funny, last year (when i was apping EA) I called their admissions office to request something like this (except I had already found what i needed to update since I screwed up on the EA app) and they told me I was not allowed to change anything.</p>
<p>They sent a form out this year encouraging kids to add to the application. My son added two letters of recommendations sent from his two jobs. (One paid one volunteer.) If he does well at the Invitation Science Olympiad in two weeks he'll put that info in too.</p>
<p>^^If you've already gotten in, and you're shooting for some sort of merit scholarship, are you still supposed to add to the application? Or is that just annoying?</p>
<p>Dianal--if your contact is useful, then they won't be annoyed. I sent (both by email and snail mail) one letter to both my admissions officer and the head admissions officer. I called them a week later to follow up on the mail. Then, when I won some awards later I sent them an update letter.</p>
<p>So that's eight contacts total. And they weren't annoyed.</p>
<p>did it ask to send an email? I missed that part</p>