I am considering emailing the admissions office of a particular school that I applied to. The email would be composed similar to that of a deferred applicant’s letter of interest. To be clear, I would email them as a regular decision applicant. Would it be worthwhile to do that? I want it to be very clear to them that they are 100% my top choice.
Does your college think that Interest is an important factor? (Google Common Data Set) and look for “interest” and see if they rate it as important. If so, what have you been doing to date to show your interest? Have you visited? Opened email from the college and clicked on links? Done an interview?
Do you have any significant additions to your application? Have you won an award or something?
If they don’t track interest, then I don’t think it would matter.
If they do track interest, have you showed interest?
Where do you fall in the SAT/ACT range that are accepted?
February and March are the most stressful and busiest time – in the entire annual admissions cycle – for all admissions offices. I truly appreciate why you believe this additional indication of interest/assurance that University X is your top choice, may seem beneficial. However, have you considered how this potential action might be perceived from the admissions staffer at University X’s viewpoint?
To illustrate, the staffer receives your e-mail that expresses continued and ardent interest (“duh, no kidding,” s/he thinks . . . “this individual and how many thousand others”?). This staffer has worked constant 80 hour weeks since mid-January, has a sick child at home, is tired and cranky, didn’t take a lunch break, and thoroughly understands how absurd such “twenty-third hour” communications really are to admissions’s VITAL February/March effort: evaluation leading to accepting, waitlisting, or denying applicants. Further, the staffer thinks: “What a jerk, so self-centered and so self-interested, he doesn’t even consider how busy we are, he squanders time we don’t have with utter nonsense just to have one more contact with X University. We don’t want thoughtless fools like him at X, and I’ll see to it he won’t matriculate here.”
Does this ever happen? Who knows. Could it occur? Certainly. Therefore, why take the risk when the potential gain ranges from minor to essentially nonexistent?
That’s very insightful. I appreciate your response.