How do I go about sending one to UPenn?
Its student portal has no way of submitting materials online. Do I just email general admission, and ask that they update it to my application?
Yes, I know it’s rather late in the admission process, but it’s a pretty significant update.
Do you know your regional representative? If not, your high school college counselor may. Or call admissions and find out who it is and an email contact. You can overnight a letter in case admissions doesn’t provide you the email. My recommendation though is that you have your college counselor send the update to Penn.
Talk to your counselor immediately, and see if they can reach someone in admissions who can elevate your letter to someone with enough clout to give your letter the attention it rightfully deserves (assuming that we’re speaking about someone very weighty). Do this now.
At this point, decisions have already likely been finalized (but the administrative work to offer acceptances to all of Penn’s new freshman class hasn’t), so if they will choose to change your waitlist/rejection into an acceptance, they will likely be waitlisting another student in place of you. Hence, I really hope that your letter has a lot of significance (I really don’t know what kind of letter would, unless you won some major international competition) and you have to pray that they’ll consider it worthy enough of taking yet another look at you.
If they’ve already decided to admit you, well, then I guess it merely solidifies your spot in Penn’s Class of 2019.
Best of luck.
S sent an update video to Penn about two weeks ago. He got the contact info from counselor. It’s not major competition awards, but we feel his personality and leadership shine in the video in which he was interviewed by local media. He got a reply “congratulations! You must be proud of yourself”. I don’t know if this will help him in any way, but at least that person watched the clip. Anyway, there’s no harm of sending an update, right?
@sdhotmama
Not generally. However, if (and most sane well-adjusted people should realize what is excessive) a student sends too many updates that are of little consequence, admissions may look down on them for wasting the time of the committee and whoever else has to read each of those updates.