<p>If I plan on sending a mid-year update to my college, to whom should I send it (e-mail the admissions office...write a letter)? And also, should I include that this school is my first choice, and, if accepted, I will probably attend? Lastly, (sorry so many questions), should I include an another letter of recommendation?</p>
<p>If I plan on sending a mid-year update to my college, to whom should I send it (e-mail the admissions office...write a letter)? </p>
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<li>Fax. I don't think writing a mid-year update is a very good idea unless it's very important. E-mail won't work because then they'll either delete it or they will have to print it and put it in your file. I don't think these mid-year updates are necessary, because they would have asked for it.</li>
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<p>And also, should I include that this school is my first choice, and, if accepted, I will probably attend?
- If you want. </p>
<p>should I include an another letter of recommendation?
-No. They don't have time to read another letter of recommendation.</p>
<p>Thanks so much! ;)</p>
<p>I'm going to disagree on this one. My college advisor, who spent many years working in admissions at several major universities, recommends hand writing letters.</p>
<p>And I definitely think it would be a good idea to clarify that a school is your first choice. That can only help you.</p>
<p>Lion,
Hand write a letter? Really? First, it seems like for admissions officers already exhausted from reading scores of applications having to decipher an applicant's handwriting is the last thing they want to do. Typing it seems so much easier for them. Also, I would think typing it gives the letter some professionalism. After all, in the real world you don't go around hand-writing notes that often anymore.</p>