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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my kid got a very personal and encouraging response from an admissions officer yesterday after sending in an email update to a college.

should DC respond? worried about filling the AO's email inbox with unnecessary chatter.
the school does track demonstrated interest.[/quote]

I think you're getting a bit of bad advice here. My dd attends a top 10 SLAC and there is NO downside to responding with a brief, enthusiastic email - that is very different than spamming their inbox. SLACs are way more personalized than larger schools - when my dd was applying, she had a peer interview at a SLAC and the director of admissions decided to sit in at the last minute (big surprise for her when she got to the meeting!). When she attended accepted students day at the school she now attends, the head of admissions remembered her and her application in detail. When she was finalizing her college list, she emailed a department head at her 2nd choice school (also a SLAC)nand the department head happily corresponded with her for a couple of weeks. She also corresponded with the head of the same dept at her current school, and before orientation week that professor reached out to my dd and said how thrilled she was that dd would be joining their community, and suggested they grab coffee after dd arrived on campus. All this is part of the reason some students want SLACs (and probably also why others would run in the other direction lol).[/quote]

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