Email to Amherst Admission ignored

_rentof2
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:48:01 +0000

Pointdexter, I sent a couple emails to the admissions office and my son sent one, and in each case they went unanswered. I had the very same thing happen at several other schools, too, so I guess it’s pretty common. I also called the Amherst admissions office twice and someone took a message and told me I’d be called back, and I never was.

My experience with the financial aid office has been better, and they have responded to emails.

My advice: If you don’t hear back, call admissions with your question. If you’re asked to leave a message and you don’t get a call back, then call again and either talk to whomever you need to talk to at that time or ask when is a good time to call --when they would be directly available-- and call back then.

I guess with thousands of applications you can’t really expect they’d be able to respond to individual emails.