Personal email from Admissions Counselor

[D_yer_Maker]

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it has certainly been fun corresponding with the admissions counselor!

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<p>I think that’s the number one thing you should take away from these communications: that they’re enjoyable exchanges for their own sake and not because you hope that they’re a crystal ball offering up some sort of astral projection that there’s an Oberlin acceptance letter in your future.</p>

<p>Two final (and authoritative) notes from me on this point and how these communications fit into the big picture.</p>

<p>First, there’s this on-point overview from ElizabethHouston:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12445818-post31.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12445818-post31.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and this observation from dave72:</p>

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@dave72

Admissions staffers often get very attached to particular applicants and find it hard when the overall vote goes against them. Remember that the staffer who wrote an encouraging email to your child may well have voted to admit him or her, but the committee vote went the other way.

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<p>Good luck!</p>