Academic units can communicate with students at the inquiry, admitted, and accepted stages: Inquiries - Students who have expressed an interest in Illinois and your college's interest area Admits - Students who have been admitted into your college/major at Illinois but haven't yet accepted their offer to attend Accepts - Students within your college/major who have accepted their offer to attend Illinois Prospects We cannot process any college emails to prospects (students who haven't expressed an interest in Illinois). The Office of Undergraduate Admissions does manage a communications plan to encourage prospects to add us to their college list and provide [...]

In many cases, forms need to be created in Slate. Below are our general policies as to when and why Slate forms are required. To learn how to create a form in Slate, check out our Slate form training. To view this training, you must log into Google through your illinois.edu email address. Prospective Student Forms If your form is for prospective students, it needs to be in Slate. This ensures that we are able to collect and store student information in one place. Admitted Student Forms If your form is for admitted students, it only needs to be in Slate [...]

During certain key periods of the admissions calendar (particularly when data is changing rapidly), the Office of Enrollment Management are unable to fulfill email, text, or data requests. These dates are as follows: Two days before, on, and three days after early action decision release Two days before, on, and three days after regular action decision release One day before, on, and one day after application open One day before, on, and one day after application deadlines One day before, on, and one day after May 1 accept deadline These blackout dates are limited and exist to make sure students receive [...]