<p>Hello, I was wondering how I would go about telling colleges about some awards that I have received recently, that I really feel would help out my application. I have already applied to these colleges. Do I e-mail them, write something to them, call them, etc.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Any one of those three methods works equally well.</p>
<p>Should I e-mail the admissions office?</p>
<p>you should actually sent a handwritten note to the reader from your area, if you balk at that idea, email them, but make sure you do it to a person, not the “office”</p>
<p>Cut yourself and write a message in blood, then explain it to the adcoms as a voodoo trick.</p>
<p>No seriously, email them. Why do you say write by hand, mhmm? They are SO busy right now, a handwritten note just seems almost careless.</p>
<p>Also, don’t send it directly to the adcom. They might not even check it (this happened to a friend, she ultimately got recruited anyway). Send it to the OFFICE and they normally put it in your file – Harvard, for example, explains this in great detail.</p>
<p>send an email, writing is a good idea, but becuz most colleges already starting reading of the apps, sending an email would be faster</p>
<p>send via email. time is of the essence at this point.</p>
<p>and send it only if you feel it can actually make a difference in your application.</p>
<p>the reason to send them by hand, used to be, that every time the reader gets a note, they need to physically go get your file and put that note into it. Thus, the more your file was opened, the more the reader looked at info inside, the better he/she familiarized with you. Now that a large percentage of files are actually electronic, its not clear if an email works better or not. Otherwise they just scan the note in. In terms of the readers being very busy – correct. They are very busy with their jobs – reading all the application files. If what you send is relevant to the admission process, then they are happy to receive it and read it.</p>