i been hearing that some ppl send in letters to the school stating how much they want to go to that school… does this help or is it a bad idea… shud parents also call the school and show interest?
<p>umm parents calling? I though college was about the student. </p>
<p>I wouldn't recommend parents calling(student calling perhaps), but a letter maybe, I don't think it'd have to much of an effect though.</p>
<p>When I was reading a book on college admissions, one of the biggest No's was having a parent get too involved in your application and having the College Adcom find out about this. Like if your parent filled out all of the forms, or if a parent called to check if app materials were in. I would definately leave your parents out of this. You are going to college next year, and colleges don't want a student who's parents do everything for them, and if you are a person who won many awards and your parent is int hat field of study, and they suspect that your parent did much of your app, or had a huge influence, they may even call into question those awards. Overall it is a bad idea to have your parents do stuff for you. With me, the only things I let my parents do were sign the forms and the check, and fin aid stuff. They wanted to do more and always checked on me, but I told them it is better if I do it myself.</p>
<p>I think it would be a lot better in showing interest to visit the college, take a tour, and if you are not a senior try to do a summer thing there. To me to actually get invoved with the school shows more interest than throwing together some letter that could mean nothing at all.</p>
<p>Only people that got defferred at an ED or EA school should write letters about wanting to go to the school. Don't pester the school with extra phone calls or letters or too many supplements--they don't like it.</p>
<p>if you liked them enough it would have been early</p>
<p>the letter should be specific if you send one at all, relating to your future courses of studies and major and stuff like that, not just general stuff</p>