<p>I am deferred in my ED Penn. I sent email to my regional rep. He called me back and he seemed to be in a great hurry…when I asked him about my application, he said everything was fine…then the reason for defferal was tough competition this year. I asked what things should do for RD review, like additional essays, recommendation letter or anything, he just told me to send in my Feb school report…the talk only lasted for 5 minutes and I felt the conversion was not in a friendly way. I had prepared myself before for his phone call and I acted really politely and calmly during the whole process.</p>
<p>I learnt from other CCers applied for the same school that they had really nice talk with their regioanl rep (not the one I mentioned above), the rep went thru their application for half an hour or 45 min to explain the area for improvement in RD.</p>
<p>So my question is besides bad luck to have such unaprroachable regional rep, what should I do? I’m still very interested in Penn and I will update my records and send to Penn. </p>
<p>1.Which person should I send–my Regioanl Rep or Dean of Admission?</p>
<li><p>Should I contact my Regional Rep again? or if I contact him again, will he get annoy and have unfavourable impression on my application?</p></li>
<li><p>If he is unapproachable, it is his character and hard to break the ice. So any suggestion?</p></li>
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<p>I would say any additional information should be forwarded to your regional rep as this is the person who would most likely be taking your file to committee. </p>
<p>I think that you may have gotten caught up in bad timing. If you just made this call, your admission rep is in the middle of sorting through the thousands of applications that just came in through the RD round. </p>
<p>when you talk about "other CCers, they may have had the luxury of having a longer conversation becasue they probably contacted their regional rep during the "lull after getting out the ED results and before dealing with the RD applications. During this period the Regional Rep probably did have some time to answer your questions and give you a little more time. I would not take it personally because they are probably getting hundreds of calls daily from ED deferrals (likey your self) and RD applicants and the time probably just isn't there for any type of long drawn out conversations.</p>
<p>I would suggest that you meet with your GC as your situation would not be unique to him/her and together you can develop some strategies to build a "stonger" app.</p>
<p>My suggestion that you focus on finding another schools - especially safeties that you love - where you will get a great education, and where you will get in. You may be pleasantly surprised by Penn, but it is extremely unlikely, and not worth expending much in the way of emotional energy.</p>
<p>Last year my son was deferred ED by Columbia. He had seen kids on CL who had been deferred and were able to speak to their regional reps who gave them valuable information as to how they could improve their applications. So, my son emailed his regional rep asking for some advice and never heard back from her. He subsequently sent in another essay and poem to the regional rep with a copy to the admissions committee to make sure it got into his file. He was admitted in the RD round. </p>
<p>My point is, just because your regional rep brushed you off doesn't mean you should lose all hope or take it personally. Good luck.</p>
<p>I would recommend sending a nice thank you note for the time he did spend with you. I would mention your feelings for Penn, and that you will forward the school report as recommended. I would then in short order send another note that there may be some other material that may help them understand why you are a good fit for Penn, and that you are sending that as well. After the thank you, it may be better received.</p>
<p>While pursuing Penn, you should also embrace mini's advice. Give yourself options. In five years of helping families with students heading to college, I have seen one get off the waitlist into her school of choice. </p>
<p>I'm glad I work with the financials rather than the admissions process, otherwise this would really be a crappy trackrecord.</p>
<p>sybbie719, i don't think that was a co-incident as that was the second time I got in touch with my reg rep..in the first time I email him asking about something, in his return email, he just gave me a rude answer and that was the reason why I prepared beforehand when he returned call to me about my application. I had asked GC in our school, but she doesn't offer much help....</p>
<p>I didn't have any trouble with the reg rep except he seems to be so unapprochable and i'm bad luck to have him as my reg rep.</p>
<p>I really get tired of the application but Penn is my first choice.....and I think the Reg rep is the final decision maker for my application...
I really at a lost.........</p>
<p>The Reg rep is not the final decision maker for your app. It goes to committee. Do NOT take the rep's behavior personally. As someone else posted, the adreps are incredibly busy dealing with thousands and thousand of applications. They don't have time to spend 45-minutes looking through your app and helping you figure out a way to present yourself better. Your job is to do the best you can do, and send any additional material required. Period. Now, please, go out and find yourself some safeties also, okay? :)</p>
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I thought idad gave you excellent suggestions (post #5), which I would follow to the letter if I were you. I also thought mini gave you excellent advice (post #3), which I would also follow if I were you.</p>
<p>Send in a nice email thank you note for the talk and ask more questions about your situtation. It could be that person had a bad day or was very busy.</p>