<p>Why would you apply to the school if you didn’t know what it was like?</p>
<p>You claim that the admissions office is conveying a message of apathy by not responding to your emails and/or responding with short, impersonal answers. </p>
<p>I submit to you that the admissions office is about 1/667th the size of the applicant pool, and that you are not the only person in said pool with questions about the application process. Imagine working with a team of 30 people and trying to address the needs of 20,000 applicants. Now imagine addressing each inquiry with a long, detailed, personal letter. Nothing would ever get done because the ad-coms would be too busy answering questions on a personal level.</p>
<p>The university does plenty to make prospective students feel welcome. Penn Previews? Overnight visits? New Student Orientation? Assigning advisors to you over the summer? The school does a lot to make the new students feel welcome that you simply haven’t been around long enough to experience yet, so don’t assume that the administration doesn’t care because the overwhelmed admissions committee may have been too busy to respond to your emails.</p>
<p>A question: were you already accepted? If so, for what reason are you trying to get in touch with the admissions committee, anyway? I didn’t deal with them at all once I got my acceptance letter.</p>