<p>so the other day, i decided to email an Ivy League university with a couple questions about the application process, b/c I couldn't find the info I wanted on the website.</p>
<p>Anyway, I tried to be friendly etc, without sucking up, etc., but when the person emailed back, I felt sort of.. weird?</p>
<p>I had asked a question about URM's, and her response stated that my questions was more about "strategy" than actually wanting to go to said Ivy League. The truth is, I am IN LOVE with that school and it really is my dream to go there. </p>
<p>Do you think such an email would be held against me when I apply next year, or am I just overreacting? :( THANKS!</p>
<p>Oh they’ll definitely remember you. Why do you think whoever responded to your email made such a point of it.</p>
<p>Clearly.</p>
<p>And maybe you’re not in love with the school; you might simply be in love with the idea of getting into the school. And have thus tried to develop a strategy. Which of course the educated admissions office person called you out on.</p>
<p>I disagree with the doomsayers. Student employees are mainly the ones replying to email questions. They get good questions and dumb ones and even questions designed to give the sender an inside edge (as if there was one to be had). If they had to track down all the dumb ones or the ones that might portray the sender in a bad light, they’d be swamped. I think you’re all being paranoid here. </p>
<p>i’d just like ot respond to “newest newb” (i’m too lazy to figure out quoting messages, etc. by saying that I have extensively researched the school and have visited (spent a summer there), so it is the actual school I’m interested in, not just the prospects of getting in. </p>
<p>Granted, it may have been a strategy, but honestly, everyone on CC does the same. =/</p>
<p>… mayge i’m over thinking it, but should i not consider applying ED?</p>