<p>My son is a junior and has taken some standardized tests and I guess they must have asked him for a phone number… I completely expected boatloads of snail mail sales pitches and email. No problem to quickly sort through these things and trash most of them. But I didn't know schools were doing cold calling over the phone. We've gotten more than a few lately. Yesterday a friendly senior from Temple was the recipient of my cranky wrath when she woke me up from a nap! Poor girl. But how obnoxious for these schools to be doing this - feels like an invasion.</p>
<p>We’ve gotten a few of those, too. D was more pleased than annoyed, though…and I’m a huge fan of caller ID so I don’t let it bother me. 
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<p>Really … you find it annoying that a school might be interested in your son and wants to talk? I think it’s a pretty cool thing to be wanted. Caller ID will definitely be your friend, I guess.</p>
<p>Um, not sure how your phone works but mine rings which makes us stop what we are doing, go to the phone and check the caller ID, so yes that is an intrusion that we did not ask for. There are other less intrusive ways for them to make their sales pitch if they are interested in my son.</p>
<p>My caller ID talks to me … no need to stop what I am doing. 
Perhaps schools are considering the environment now, rather than sending boatloads of printed material, as they did when my kids were in high school. </p>
<p>We got calls all the way through April of senior year, offering frazzled D scholarships to schools where she had not even submitted an application, based on stats reported from standardized tests. Each of these schools also sent out printed information replete with testimonials from satisfied grads. I found those especially annoying when the student callers persisted even after I told them she really wasn’t interested, apparently indignant that we would turn down merit money. </p>
<p>D was usually busy studying when we got these calls, and I did not want to interrupt her. I did interrupt her when an incoming call was from a school that she had applied to, or one that had already accepted her. Some of the schools she did not attend requested she fill out a written survey after, telling them why she had decided to go elsewhere and indicating where she had gone. </p>