"Please do not send application updates to admissions staff."

limabeans
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:38:40 +0000

Why would you want to send a deferral letter anyway? Your regional admissions officer already knows your status.

They meant if you had any new updates, like awards and such. If instead, you meant that you wanted to write to your admissions officer a letter stating Yale is your first choice and all, then fax it as they asked. Too bad you don’t like faxes; they don’t want the extra paper.

And you don’t want to annoy the adcoms by disregarding their directions, do you?