Deferred Now What?

Percy_Skivins
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:17:51 +0000

I really don’t think they want you writing to them on a regular basis unless you have something new and important to report. One medium length letter is good to show that you are still interested, but I think writing every 3 weeks would only backfire - they will conclude that you are an overeager pain and that’s not who they want. They want people with “expressed interest” who they think are likely to matriculate (this helps their yield stats) but they don’t want people who are obsessive, so you have to walk that fine line. I think some of the people who did not get in despite having good stats may have “wanted it too badly” and this came thru in their app and not in a good way. You don’t want to overidentify with a place that has not yet picked you so if your CC name is “whartonordeath” or somesuch you maybe have to tone it down a little.