NO!! am not arguing with you or trying to prove you wrong. i was simply ranting over how some schools (immaturely) handle the whole application and admission process. sorry for the confusion.
you are basically right, but my intuition strongly discourages to contact the schools that seemingly don't care about us! all they do is take our money, and poof - disappear into thin air! that's totally inhumane, don't you think? i mean, poor and helpless as we are, we still have hearts that suffer when schools we so much care about don't think it's necessary to give us the whereabouts of our applications.
almost like someone whom you give roses, they take it, and few months later, you find out that they've decided to bond with someone else! this hurts bro.. cuts very deep