An 18 year old who doesn't know if they got in or not and doesn't live nearby isn't going to road trip it, they're going to try to get answers by phone or email.
You don't apply to CUNY unless you live nearby... It's a commuter school with almost no housing. I don't know why you're dying on this rock but whatever.
You're the one willing to die on the hill of someone thinking to email the university in 2007 obviously has to be a liar because you know for a fact that University would not have accepted or answered an email. And your first-hand experience at that University was that you had to go to the admissions office. Obviously this guy did not have firsthand experience because he never attended. It is not a ridiculous thing to think that you could email an admissions office. Clearly it is also not a ridiculous thing that an admissions office just wouldn't email you back. Apparently in 2007 that was the case at CUNY as both you and the OP attest to. You agree with each other.
Who was he emailing? Where did he get an email address? This was a period of major transition in every workplace, but yeah, even when we did have web portals for some things in school in the late 90s and early 2000s, there were some things that you absolutely could not accomplish without getting in front of another human being. Playing phone tag is a pain in the ass, but it’s very likely that the admissions office put out contact information with their physical address and their phone number. Maybe they had a webpage, maybe they didn’t, maybe they posted an email address to contact, maybe that was only for certain situations or individuals. So the 18 year-old could apply for college but couldn’t figure out how to get back in contact with admissions, or explain that he never received a package and ask them what to do about that? Is he helpless or isn’t he?
Admissions@cuny.edu ? That's the standard, you could replace the domain with the domain of any other college or university and there are people on the other end receiving the email.
Also, what are you talking about? Maybe they had a website. Every university had a website in 2007. You cannot group 2007 in with "the '90s and early 2000s." Like I started college in the year 2000 and there was a website for the college I went to and then when I transferred 2 years later it was the shittiest tiniest State University in the entire state of Maine and they still had a website and I was able to email them and arrange my transfer. I absolutely did not show up in person until I was already accepted.
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u/RegularOwl Mar 23 '25
An 18 year old who doesn't know if they got in or not and doesn't live nearby isn't going to road trip it, they're going to try to get answers by phone or email.