Sending this message to your School Representative

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Connecticut
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<p>My adviser said to send something to my school's rep.
For me, it has been over three MONTHS, and I have yet to hear even the slightest reply.
I made this email for my rep.
If you guys could edit it, that would be great.</p>

<p>Mr. (Rep)</p>

<pre><code> My name is (eurosport360!), a student at (My school) located in (My Town), and I had a couple of questions regarding undergraduate admissions.
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<p>Firstly, I applied to Uconn at the end of October, and the website (studentadmin) confirmed that they received everything on November 3rd. It has been over three months so far, and everyday I check my application status to see if it has changed yet. Everyday for over three months, it has said "Your application was complete on November 3rd...". I called the undergraduate admissions office about a month ago to see if my application was actually complete, and they confirmed that it was.
Uconn is my number one choice, and I would not go anywhere else. I have been to two tours, the open house, called to ask questions about the school and have also been called by current students who attend there. I am extremely interested with Uconn, and would not find myself in a better place. However, nobody has even contacted me about my application progress, and it has been well over the amount of response time a normal EA student usually receives.</p>

<p>Could you give me an update on where my application stands today? Even though we have midterms this week, our semester grades will be sent in the middle of February (because of the snow days) However, I did send my quarter one grades about a month and a half ago, seeing that midterms could be pushed back.</p>

<p>If there is anything I could send/do to boost the speed of my application process, then I would be happy to do it.</p>

<p>(My name)</p>

<p>Is this good, or do I need revision?</p>

<p>Should I put something like,</p>

<p>there have been many students in my highschool, with some having higher statistics and some with lower, who have already been notified about a decision.</p>

<p>(this is serious)</p>

<p>or</p>

<p>wth is taking you guys so long?</p>

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<p>I’m interested in sending a similar email. I think you should sent it I doubt it will hurt plus im curious to hear their response lol.</p>

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<p>Is the grammar and content ok?</p>

<p>I reviewed it but I want to make sure.</p>

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<p>For your letter, you should say every day, not everyday. You would use everyday to modify a noun, for example - “I was wearing my everyday boots” - but not here.
The rest looks fine - good luck to you!</p>

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<p>A few suggestions: 1) Your questions are not about undergraduate admissions, but about the status of your Early Application. Just say that. 2) Is there even such a word as “Firstly”? Just drop it, you don’t need it… 3)In the second paragraph, you are extremely interested in (not with) UConn (not Uconn – you might want to use “University of Connecticut” once, then continue with “UConn” thereafter). 4) also second paragraph, drop the last two sentences. It’s clear from your letter that you haven’t heard yet; don’t whine about it. 5)Final sentence, ask if there’s anything you can do to help with the application process, rather than speed up the process. The latter makes it seem like you’re annoyingly impatient, rather than just impatient! </p>

<p>FWIW, IMHO</p>

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<p>Mr. (Rep)</p>

<p>My name is (eurosport360!), a student at (My school) located in (My Town), and I had a couple of questions regarding the status of my Early Application.
I applied to the University of Connecticut at the end of October, and the website (studentadmin) confirmed that they received everything on November 3rd. It has been over three months so far, and every day I check my application status to see if it has changed yet. Every day for over three months, it has said “Your application was complete on November 3rd…”. I called the undergraduate admissions office about a month ago to see if my application was actually complete, and they confirmed that it was.
Uconn is my number one choice, and I would not go anywhere else. I have been to two tours, the open house, called to ask questions about the school and have also been called by current students who attend there. I am extremely interested in Uconn, and would not find myself in a better place. </p>

<p>Could you give me an update on where my application stands today? Even though we have midterms this week, our semester grades will be sent in the middle of February (because of the snow days) However, I did send my quarter one grades about a month and a half ago, seeing that midterms could be pushed back.</p>

<p>If there is anything I could do to help my application process, then I would be happy to do it.</p>

<p>(My name)</p>

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<p>So this is all the rep sent to me</p>

<p>Good Evening Mr. (my last name),</p>

<p>Notification on Early Action files will go out this week. Please check your email for updates.</p>

<p>Regards,</p>

<p>His name</p>

<p>I mean, is this some generic answer they give people, or do you think he actually means it? The week is pretty much over, so does he mean next week? Very vague.</p>

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<p>Thank you for sending the email and I guess that means they plan to get them out by the end of next week.</p>

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<p>I sent a similar email a few weeks ago asking because it was taking so long and they emailed me back saying to just keep checking back. Within the week my status had changed. Uconn is piled with thier amount of applicants this year thats why they are taking so long. Don’t worry, you should hear back soon! Good Luck!</p>

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<p>@ Ohcollege
I am really interested in what they said to you. Did they say pretty much the same thing in their email?
Were you accepted within the next week?</p>

<p>If you were, what are your stats?</p>

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<p>People who work in admissions are very busy during admission season, especially at a big school like UConn. They don’t have time to write a warm, lengthy, personalized letter for every simple query they receive. If the email says it will go out in a week, then it will go out in a week. Be glad you got a response and take it at face value.</p>

<p>Also, in the future, it’s best to keep correspondence like this short and to the point, instead of writing a very detailed letter. The majority of those details are extraneous and just glossed over by whoever is reading it. This is just friendly advice and something I learned when I’d send these long emails to professors and receive a short one sentence reply. They generally don’t have time to read every word of every piece of correspondence they receive, so make it concise.</p>

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<p>@eurosport360 Yeah they sent me the same email back. Then about a week later I got another email telling me that my application statues had changed. I got into one of the regional campuses which was rather disappointing. I’m in the processes of trying to see if I can get put on a waiting list. It’s been happening to a lot of people in my school. My GPA is about a 92/100, I’m in mostly honors classes and APs, my low part are my SATs 1590 but I have a lot of extracurriculars and Community service. Good Luck!</p>