Parent contact admissions

beolein
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:17:52 +0000

It is acceptable under the right circumstances. You may not have reached those yet.
The Common App had system wide problems. They may be fixed. Try again.
You say you e-mailed the admissions department. If you mean you e-mailed the Common App, that is fine. They can help you with this. If you mean you e-mailed the admissions department of the college to which your daughter is applying, I hope you mean you e-mailed all the colleges to which she is applying. If she is applying to just one college, quickly choose other colleges and apply in case she doesn’t get into the one college she wants.
Hopefully the College App will fix things before the deadline. If not, you should expect them to release a statement concerning what to do. And if they don’t do so before Thursday, contact all the colleges to ask what they will do.