Will this affect my application?

Applying to College
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<p>I questioned this on ND board but I figure this will get more hits</p>

<p>Ok, so I know some admissions officers (of schools I'm not applying to) so I really had no questions about the application process.</p>

<p>Problem is, I realize now that I have expressed little to no interest to the admissions officers of the schools I'm applying to.
(my application is pretty good, probably in the middle 50% of the schools I'm applying to)</p>

<p>four interviews (decent)
no calls or emails to any of the schools (except one to make sure they received my report and another to question an interview date)
visits to some, not all (no time thanks to sports and school, the ones I didn't visit are several hundred miles away)
my essays did not mention the respective school in it or my enthusiasm for it</p>

<p>Question: Do you think this "lack of interest" will affect my chances? I mean, I am seriously passionate about each one of these schools and am sure I would love any of them, but I haven't conveyed that to the admissions officers. And if so, is there any last minute things I can do? </p>

<p>Thanks for reading this!</p>

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<p>No - i don't think many schools place important on interest. If you are worried, you can always send an update letter saying what you've been up to and how you really want to study there. It might be too late for that though...</p>

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<p>Check the school's CDS. I believe mostly LACs that worry about their yields, they are the schools that want you to show them you are interest in them, not just applying randomly.</p>

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<p>Ok, thanks targetred. Nothing very interesting has happened since december though... hmmm</p>

<p>Columbia_Student - CDS? And do you have any suggestions or ideas for how to show this interest so late in the process?</p>

<p>Thanks for your responses!</p>

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<p>CDS = Common Data Set.</p>

<p>I would fax them any update of awards/honors/leadership positions to them especially LACs. For example, I faxed/emailed NMF award and new leadership position to these schools recently for my daughter.</p>

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<p>And if have not received any official awards or honors since application (cough), any other non-annoying way you can think of to contact them?</p>

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<p>Write a letter expressing your interest in the school, using specific examples of how you and the college are a great match. That is usually a good thing to do to demonstrate interest--just make sure it is more personal than clinical and it will have the desired effect.</p>

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<p>ok thanks for the tip! You don't think they will take this as sucking up/annoying?</p>

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<p>No, it's not usually seen as either being annoying or as sucking up. Some of my friends and I were counseled to send such letters if we were deferred during EA or ED, or as a tool to demonstrate interest if we were applying RD. Most of us were lucky to get into our first choice schools.</p>

<p>I'd write a letter, but still make sure someone proof reads it, you'd be surprised at the small mistakes we all made. Luckily, most of them were caught by proof readers.</p>

<p>Good luck on the college hunt. :)</p>

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<p>thanks IsleBoy! I will start writing that now.</p>

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<p>Not a problem.</p>