I recently emailed a bunch of colleges about their admission processes. Will they keep my emails in their records for any reason?
Anyone?
Depends on the school. Why are you asking?
What did you ask them?
Aren’t you freshman in HS now? I would not email admissions officers until you are a junior or senior in HS. In fact, personally I would recommend against spending much time on CC until you are a HS junior.
You should not ask admissions officers any questions that you can research and get the answer to on your own by looking at the college website or reading up on the admission process.
I was asking Stanford and Princeton whether they actually do look at Freshman year because I have been getting very mixed answers online. @MrElonMusk @milee30
[url=<a href=“https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/freshman/transcripts.html%5DHere”>https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/freshman/transcripts.html]Here is a link to the relevant page on the Stanford website.[/url ] Although they do receive the entirety of your HS transcript from G9 to G12, they “focus” on your “academic performance in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.” I hope this helps.
they might keep your emails but who cares? You are asking a reasonable question in a polite way. Just don’t over do it (look online first).
Also find colleges that fit you, don’t try to fit yourself to a college.
Who knows? I doubt any adcom today goes to the trouble of searching all their records for contacts as they review an app, but it wouldn’t be hard to automate it and have the electronic “folder” contain links to all contacts. Furthermore with the rise of AI it is entirely possible that by the time you are applying 3 years hence that some machine learning program will do it.
I don’t say this to scare you, but on the other hand I’d suggest not emailing colleges with questions they answer on their website.
Edit: I’m going to change my answer. It’s likely colleges already do this. I spent a few minutes browsing the websites of software for colleges
So you send in an email, they dump it into an account with your name and/or email (bits are pretty cheap), years later you apply and voila there all your past contacts show up.
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@mikemac Wow, that’s pretty interesting. You don’t think they’d negatively scrutinize me for the question I asked, right?
Stanford and Princeton don’t really care if you emailed them.
“You don’t think they’d negatively scrutinize me for the question I asked, right?”
One dumb question (and there are dumb questions - such as asking about things that are already disclosed on the school’s web site)? No. But if you repeatedly email them with similar questions or waste their time in other ways it’s possible they’d have a less favorable impression of you.
To get back to the original question:
I highly doubt it. These college receive 30K applications a year, and you are 2.5 years away from applying. Even with 1Tb of storage, if every applicant just asked one question, the archive would quickly fill up.
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