<p>This admissions officer from Penn visited the Fame school along with adcoms from Harvard, Duke, and Georgetown (Yale is such a pretentious stranger, eh?) And I took down her name. I heard that i should contact her and get acquainted because that can be an advantage to me. Since i am so eager to get accepted to Penn (i'd probably scream my lungs out in joy if i do) i'm going to try to get in contact. I have one problem though. What do people normally talk to them about?! gahh</p>
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<p>Ask them random questions relevant to the university admissions. Like Do you care about ACT/SAT? What do you think about AP Scores? What if I want to do ________ when I get out of college, what major would you suggest? Do admission rates differ between schools?</p>
<p>Make sure you mention your name in every e-mail.</p>
<p>Don't ask questions you can find on the college website - youll just appear lazy, unmotivated, and pesky.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>it could work against you because chances are that in order to be recognized or remembered you'll have to contact her/him more than 3 or 4 times, which they might regard to as you being a nuisance, who gets to be annoying. My opinion would be to write a memorable email, mention your name,a nd be brief.</p>
<p>my opinion is to ask about them, do a little research about them, then say something about how you want to be an adcom, and how you've noticed that she graduated from X college, could she tel you how she liked it, make it something where it becomes more personal.</p>
<p>The adcoms give you their cards with their names, e-mails more from a standpoint of professional courtesy with the expectation that you are not going to use it for some sort of frivolity- such as becoming acquainted with her, but using it for something really important. For them this is not a social event, they are not trying to be your friend, they are doing a job.</p>
<p>wolves,</p>
<p>Baby, I still got love for you but...</p>
<p>I totally disagree when it comes to the questions you suggested. First of all when it comes to selective schools the admissions process is much more wholistic so more than numbers are considered.</p>
<p>Like Do you care about ACT/SAT?
What do you think about AP Scores?
Do admission rates differ between schools?</p>
<p>Most of this information in some form can be found on the school's website. Although Penn does not have a common data set, they do have a profile or a list of "facts'' in the admissions section of website.</p>
<p>What do you think about AP Scores? how the school handles AP scores and subjects can also be found on the webiste.</p>
<p>What if I want to do ________ when I get out of college, what major would you suggest? This is not an appropriate question as many paths can take you to te same destination and it would suggest that student is not capable of doing his/her own basic research on what is needed to get from point a to point b.</p>
<p>A school like penn and most of the ivies, getting in touch, becoming "friends' with the adcoms is going to do anything in the way of giving you an "advantage" in the admissions, especially when there will be 10's of thousands of students applying. Making a pest of yourself (especially becasue OP is a rising junior) will have an adverse effect and will a big factor in helping you to not be admitted in to the class of 2012.</p>
<p>Obviously A2Wolves6 was being sarcastic.</p>
<p>And to the OP: don't bother, it won't help.</p>
<p>I agree with Sybbie, by the time an adcom completes a tour of a region, s/he has likely handed out hundreds of business cards. Handle with care, because these are still human beings who are going to have the same personality quirks like the rest of us. Making a bad impression is almost as easy as making a good impression, and I'm convinced that many adcoms have the best stories to tell about annoying incidents they've experienced. </p>
<p>On the other hand, my daughter managed to form a productive relationship beginning the fall of her junior year in H.S. when a Director of Admissions (from Emory University) visited her high school, and she was one of just a handful of students to attend the info. session. A year later, the same Director appeared at her H.S. and knew her from having met her again inbetween when my daughter visited the campus. By this time, my daughter had some intelligent questions to pose about applications for admissions and the Emory Scholars Program, recommendations required, etc. Letting the "relationship" evolve naturally is the best way to go. Also, I think most adcoms prefer brief, specific e-mails to questions ... and as long as you're not bombarding them with e-mails every week, you should be OK. </p>
<p>I'm a big proponent of using the school's website to glean as much information as possible. Sometimes, it's worthwhile to make contact with a coach if you are a recruited/recruitable athlete (even at a Div. III school). Whatever you do, don't take the contact info., and pull a stunt such as sending one shoe to the adcom with a note, "Just wanted to get a foot in the door!" ;)</p>
<p>Yeah, I was actually being sarcastic. It really wasn't good sarcasm though.</p>
<p>How about a simple "thank you" note. Thank them for coming to your school, tell them it was a pleasure to meet them and that you are really looking forward to applying soon.</p>
<p>What's an adcom? kinda new...</p>
<p>Admissions Counselor at a College.</p>
<p>The Duke adcom that came to our school was really nice :D It helped that she was responsible for our region, her family lives in the same city, and her son went to my high school. :D She gave me her card, spent some time afterwards to talk to me and answered my emails. Plus, when I visited on Blue Devil Day for accepted students she was there handing out info packets and she remembered me! She started talking about my app and stuff, very amazing.</p>
<p>If you really must ask a question, make it a thoroughly researched one...perhaps a specific question that could only apply to that school.</p>
<p>i can't send them a thank you card. they probably forgot they visited my school. It was a while ago. Maybe i shouldn't talk to her then, if there's a chance of being rejected because of it, and i tend to talk a lot when i'm nervous, which i will become when i talk to one of the people who determine whether i'm accepted to my dream school. I heard Penn's really into Ben Franklin though. One guy said that when he visited Penn, they told him to read Franklin's bio to get an idea of the school's purpose and whatnot.</p>
<p>Penn's into Ben Franklin because Ben Franklin founded it. If you look at the website there's pages devoted to how Penn's general atmosphere is related to Franklin.</p>
<p>Kind of like how UVa's into Thomas Jefferson.</p>
<p>Yeahh, i see that. Should i compare myself to Ben Franklin? Just a bit. For example, uh..."I moved to another grammar school, similarly to what Franklin had done, and quickly rose to the top of my class." I won't talk about grades or anything that you can find in my application. But I wonder if this will say that I have the Penn spirit and whatever. (if i get accepted, i'm forgetting everything about Franklin..mehh i'd forget it anyway.).</p>
<p>I still think he will do the right thing and call. And if he pulls the right string by getting just a little personal and he is lucky enough that the acdom will have a nice personality it will just work as an advertisement. Whent there are so many applicants applying and when it comes down to you and that other kid which they have never heard about they will think back to the conversation you have had. good luck</p>
<p>I think contacting the Adcom is a good idea, as long as you have something interesting to say. DON'T ask about things you can find on the website. Also, don't compare yourself to Ben Franklin, but perhaps you should tell how you admire Ben Franklin and would like to be like him someday ;-)</p>