<p>I decide to open my Hotmail “Junk Mail” folder, and what do I see? An email from Penn Admissions with the subject: “Important Notice About Obtaining Your Student Visa For Study at the University of Pennsylvania.”</p>
<p>Good thing I decided to open my junk mail folder.</p>
<p>Add "upenn.edu" to your safe list. </p>
<p>Same thing happened to me last year.</p>
<p>at least you caught it. it seems like about 13 important e-mails have disappeared from 5 or 6 schools i applied to. argh</p>
<p>umm..yeah...hotmail has terrible filters. What you need gets filtered out and the real junk just stays in the inbox...the reason to switch to gmail. :)</p>
<p>do what thinkjose said for all the schools you're applying to and you should be fine.</p>