<p>I agree with the tone above, relax. It is October for goodness sake, this isn’t a race. Give admissions a break - with 10s of thousands of applications, things take time. Get use to waiting for admissions to respond and the common app to download at every school. And enjoy the fact you are so early in the process. These admissions departments are only a handful of people, this is not like a call center at an airline with people just waiting to answer a phone. The more each person calls to check when it really isn’t necessary, the more the process is delayed for everyone. We applied to many schools and I clearly remember things taking time to clear through the common app. Some schools don’t download till much later, some wait till close to their deadline, just how it is. But it all ends up working out. Since you have time, perhaps an email is more efficient if you just have to know something.</p>