I am interested in applying to transfer colleges for next fall. Since I can’t really visit the schools I want to apply to before I apply, I was planning on emailing the admissions office with questions in order to show interest. However, I don’t really know who to email in the admissions office or what questions to ask.
-Are these good questions?
-Does your school have a mock trial team?
-I am interested in playing field hockey at your school; is that possible for a transfer student?
-How does your school help transfer students transition?
-Are there any transfer students you can put me in contact with?
-Who from the admissions office do I contact? My admissions officer? The head of the admissions office?
yeah interest does. Schools want yield rates to be really high and if they think you really want to go to their school they’ll be more likely to admit you.
I don’t think “demonstrated interest” is really much of a factor in transfer admissions. Odds are that whoever looks at your application will have no idea that you’ve even “shown interest.” For freshman admissions, it can certainly make a difference at some schools. But unless you’re a superstar athlete or a student that has published genuine original research or something along those lines, I just can’t see it playing much, if any of a role in the selection process in any practical sense.
If you have the opportunity to go on campus visits and it’s not too inconvenient, then it’s definitely worthwhile to tour the campus. Sometimes a school can seem great on paper, and not so great in person. If you genuinely DO have questions for admissions, then they certainly should be asked. However, I wouldn’t do so solely for the sake of ‘demonstrating interest.’ Others will see it in a different way.