Some programs do a great job managing the recruiting process and others don’t. My daughter filled out a dozen online recruiting forms in early September of her Junior year. Some schools replied promptly with personalized emails. Others didn’t even send an automated response.
My daughter sent updates every couple of months and had several lengthy email exchanges with some of these teams. She was receiving encouragement from some of the faster teams while being ignored by other schools where she might have made a significant impact as a freshman. Although a few of these schools didn’t respond for months, they all ended up offering some combination of Junior Days and Official Visits and she ended up at one of the fastest of them.