Update to admissions on new awards

<p>I have received three recognitions of late that I feel could impact admissions/scholarship decisions. I'd like to forward this to each school I applied to. </p>

<p>My question - what do you think admissions prefers? Snail Mail or Email for this type of thing? Which is most likely to make it to my file?</p>

<p>The concensus seems to be snail mail. The letter should be short, and just list your awards as bullet points. You may want to restate your interest in the school briefly.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>My son won two-three awards in February or even later which happens to a lot of students. He faxed a cogent statement about the award to Admissions, and in some cases had a specific name in the admisssions office to use. He also used his SSN and a header which were very clear re his identity for people who filed such documents. In one instance, he also faxed a state level academic award with a one paragraph introduction to one department chair as his award was highly relevant to his planned major in that department. There is always a chance that an academic department would call admissions to show interest in a student, but this is more likely in the arts when professors are called on to comment on actual submissions of original work.
Emails get overlooked too often.</p>