<p>I'm a deferred ED applicant and I plan on writing a letter to the admissions committee to express my continued desire to attend Columbia and provide them with an update of what I am have doing since applying. </p>
<p>However, I'm not exactly sure how I should address the letter. I don't know my regional admissions person (not even sure how I would go about finding this information). Should I simply address it "To the Admissions Committee," ????</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the admissions office doesn’t want any letters other than the ones needed for the application. It was stated in the section for waitlisted students, so my guess is that the same thing applies for ED deferred students.</p>
<p>To the Admissions Committee - is a good start.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/sites/admissions/files/webfm/counselor_newsletter.pdf[/url]”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/sites/admissions/files/webfm/counselor_newsletter.pdf</a></p>
<p>at the end of this newsletter, is a list of regional admissions officers.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I emailed my regional admissions officer and mentioned a couple of achievements that I hadn’t been aware of early enough to put on my ED app, and at the end briefly stated my ongoing desire to attend. I don’t think just writing to tell them about your ongoing commitment is a good idea, it would probably just be irritating extra information that they don’t really need. But if you’ve got stuff to add to your file, it’s a great excuse to write.</p>
<p>But yeah, I got my regional adcom’s name & email address from the same link onthebrink posted, so I’d definitely recommend writing directly to them.</p>
<p>Has your regional admissions officer written back to you? If he/she has, how long did it take for you to get a reply?</p>
<p>She emailed me pretty quickly thanking me for the update and telling me that the information has been added to my file. I sent off my email one afternoon and she’d written back within twenty-four hours.</p>
<p>I only see their names listed though, where could I find their e-mail?</p>
<p>roar, i do not suggest emailing the individual officer, such an email is superfluous. send one to the general email list and “To the Admissions Committee”</p>
<p>why? as i recall, student workers and the front desk people man the general email; they append emails to files very easily allowing it to be part of your official file. it is their job to service this list and direct things to the right place. further, columbia asks and directs you to send all updates to the general email.</p>
<p>sending to the officer is false presumption of particularity. that is to say, unless you have something specific you wish to note (i.e. a relationship with the officer, having met him/her and wish to address them particularly) it is not quite necessary. raychacha had a good experience, but in general you just have to assume that of the thousand or so deferred students if each student sent an email to their individual officer it becomes a bog for them. so i usually suggest to think about the purpose of the email.</p>
<p>ultimately: you want the email to be added to your file - so that the admissions committee as a whole (not just the regional officer) may see your continued interest. so unless you have something to communicate to the regional officer - which could range from a question to a specific thank you - i would suggest you send to the general email.</p>
<p>Why would you address anything with “To”? The awkward “To whom it may concern” is the only time you’d use that. I’d opt for “Members of the Admissions Committee:”</p>
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<p>This sounds about right.</p>
<p>As to where the email addresses are located, try the blue column to the left at the end of the newsletter linked above.</p>
<p>thanks friends! very helpful stuff indeed.</p>
<p>admissions geek, thanks for you help! just to clarify, do you suggest I send an e-mail as well as sending it via the postal service? I ask this because I plan on sending the letter along with a college essay that I wrote since applying ED that I happen to like a lot more than the one I wrote for Columbia. </p>
<p>Also, I actually wrote in the letter that I’m not expecting the Admissions Committee to take the new essay into consideration, but that I simply wanted to provide another perspective through an essay that I consider to be more reflective and personally insightful. How does that sound?</p>
<p>1) email is faster, you can attach the essay.
2) i wouldn’t say “you don’t expect them to take it into consideration” i would say, here is another essay i have written for your consideration. let them deal with it.</p>
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<p>It sounds unnecessarily negative.</p>