<p>Does it help to stay in touch with the admissions office to show that you are interested or do they not even care?</p>
<p>I'm not sure if they keep track, but it can't hurt to keep in touch. Generally, visiting a school shows a school that you're interested. I believe that's something some schools actually keep track of.</p>
<p>I don't think they care - - - especially the higher end schools.</p>
<p>Let me put it this way: it isn't going to make or break you whatsoever.</p>
<p>At some places, it really does help if you keep in touch. But there is a fine line you cannot cross. You can't become annoying.</p>
<p>So by keep in touch, don't actually try to get to know anyone in the admissions office, just ask some good questions every once in a while, visit the campus, and try to let them connect a name with a face, but not much more.</p>
<p>Yeah I'm not so sure it matters either. But I have been contacting some of the schools that I will be applying to about my current courseload, one of which was Columbia. I've only sent one email and received one very short response that I was on the right track from the Econ department, and then I got an email from Columbia the other day saying I was on their list of undergraduate students that had shown interest in the school. The contents of the email made it sound like I had visited the school, which I have yet to do, but hey I'll take it!</p>
<p>That's interesting that they have a list of interested people. I wasn't on that list when I applied. Maybe partly why I was rejected haha</p>
<p>For me, it didn't help that much in the end. <em>sigh</em>. =P</p>
<p>someone told me I should email professors to show I'm interested; i really didn't understand that piece of advice, can someone explain? It's like some highschool kid just randomly emails Professor XXX and says "hey, I'm interested in this dept". won't the profs think "hey, why not try getting admitted first, then talk to me " ? What if you cant afford to visit ?</p>
<p>lol i dunno how you'd go about emailing profs in high school...since i'm gonna be a transfer applicant, i asked if the courses i was taking at my current college were good to prepare me for an econ major at columbia and they seemed aight with that question. I dunno what you could ask since there aren't really many courses to choose from in high school and it's kinda straightforward.</p>