<p>I wrote an important email to an admission officer ten days ago. I got a reply from the secretary of the officer saying that the officer is out of town but he will read my letter in sometime that week. I has been a week since the secretary wrote back, but the admission officer himself has not yet written back. Should I wait longer before I contact the officer or Should I write a follow up email asking him if he has read my email? How should I word my email without sounding rude?
thank you guys!</p>
<p>I was admitted as a spring admit at a college but my brother was admitted as a fall admit. Due to a family situation, I am asking the admission director if i can also become a fall admit. </p>
<p>You can write another email, wondering whether the officer has had a chance to read your previous email, sent on ... In case the officer has not yet had a chance to read that email, here is what you wrote..... (cut and paste from previous email).
This will save the officer the trouble of digging into the no doubt large pile or emails that accumulated while s/he was out of the office.</p>
<p>Remember, if someone is out of town for a week, that doesn't mean he will be able to reply to your email the day he gets back. He will come back to mountains of catch up work alone, not to mention countless letters and emails. It will take him a little time to get caught up.</p>
<p>When I am sending a business letter that requests a response, and haven't received one yet, I take the identical letter and on the first line type: Second request for information, please advise. Then I cut & paste the original letter below that. Or in the case of the original being sent e-mail I find the "sent" version (with the time and date stamp) and reply all, remove myself from the address line, and type: Second request for information, please advise, see letter below for details.</p>
<p>There's no need to worry about being "rude" if you're not being rude.</p>
<p>Get on the phone and call them. You're in a situation that needs a quick answer, so using the telelphone would be the best way to handle things.</p>
<p>One advantage to calling about something that is pressing is that you can answer the person's question right then and there, rather than adding additional toing and froing time, continually missing each other because of vacation schedules, or getting buried under piles of other messages that came in all at once. </p>
<p>Once you receive an answer you like, memorialize it in writing (on paper) to the person under the guise of a gracious thank you note, keeping a copy or photocopy for your files.</p>