When I send questions to admission email...

Applying to College
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<p>Does it go to admission officer? The one who will review over application?
Or is the one who checks the email different from the one who reviews application?</p>

<p>*What happened to me is:
I just sent questionnaire email to admission office, and I feel like I have done terrible mistake.
It's not like I swore in the email. Yet, I have written very self-concentrated email.
Although I did say "thank you", there was nothing more: just my question and situation.
Would I, who want to give good impression to admission officer, be okay?</p>

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<p>There is usually support staff that is the first to see any correspondence. Things are passed to the admissions officer as needed.</p>

<p>Have you applied to this college? If so, all correspondence may go in your file.</p>

<p>If you have not applied to this college and it is just a question, it may be answered by staff and that is the end of it.</p>

<p>I can’t really tell what the problem is. A straightforward question is fine to ask.</p>

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<p>If you sent straightfoward questions about applying to a school by email, that is not a problem. It’s conventional to include niceties in emails similar to the way we do in conversation, but the mere absence of ‘please and thank you’ and similar language in an email inquiry will definitely not affect your admissions decision.</p>

<p>Based on the time of your post and the tone of your writing I’m wondering if you are international or a non-English speaker? If so, admissions will understand cultural differences or a language barrier might have led to your email having a brusque tone. It’s really not a problem.</p>

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<p>Niceday,
How did you link the time of posting to the country of poster’s residence?</p>

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<p>Over the years I’ve noticed many posts on cc from international applicants arriving in the wee hours of the morning my time. That combined with the grammar in the post being consistent with someone whose first language isn’t English, led to my guess that eashn may be international. It’s just a hunch.</p>

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<p>Thanks, everyone. That made me feel better :)</p>