<p>agree colorado, no regrets that D did not apply enough places, we cannot read the admissions committees minds of what they want this year, wide net from small rural area</p>
<p>The College of New Jersey (where I’ll be attending this fall) has seen the highest number of first year admissions applications in its history this year, topping out at 9,936.</p>
<p>Applications are up eight percent over last year, according to Lisa Angeloni, dean of admissions. In 2009, TCNJ received 9,222 applications; 2008 saw 9,669; and 2007 brought in 8,537 applicants.</p>
<p>Each year, TCNJ aims to admit a first year class of 1,325, accepting between 3,800-4,200 from the total applicant pool.</p>
<p>[TCNJ</a> sees record-high applications for class of 2014](<a href=“http://www.tcnj.edu/~pa/news/2010/apps.htm]TCNJ”>http://www.tcnj.edu/~pa/news/2010/apps.htm)</p>
<p>Here’s an interesting article from the NY Times regarding one marketing tool colleges are using to increase applications. Some schools are sending out “several hundred thousand” free appications just to get more students to apply.</p>
<p>[ROYALL</a> & COMPANY - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/royall-company/]ROYALL”>Royall & Company - The Choice Blog - The New York Times)</p>
<p>[Colleges</a> Market Easy, No-Fee Sell to Applicants - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/education/26admit.html]Colleges”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/education/26admit.html)</p>
<p>Alot of colleges also extend their deadlines if a student has started on the Common App, but hasn’t sent it in.</p>
<p>My daughter had the same experience from Cal Tech, a school she never showed any interest in. Right up to the admissions deadline, she received no less than two e-mails a day as well as several large envelopes filled with propaganda. I believe these schools are using marketing companies to entice as many students as possible to apply just so they can increase their stats.</p>
<p>S2 received a ton of mail from Harvard and an application in the mail. Do they really need to push so hard for applicants? He had already visited and didn’t like it so he didn’t consider applying and never put his name on any Harvard list. Looks like they are all going full out with their marketing efforts.</p>
<p>so is the general feeling that the marketing is to make more money on apps?i thought this actually was the reason until i read they are free alot of times (not right if they are giving free apps) or more likely- they look more selective and increase their ratings?</p>
<p>the latter – to look more selective.</p>
<p>NO college admission office is a profit center from application fees. All colleges spend far more on recruiting students than students pay in through application fees. NACAC has published research on this from time to time. Application fee revenue is a negligible part of the budget of most college admission offices. </p>
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<p>idad, I thought you long ago saw this link about Harvard’s recruiting efforts: </p>
<p><a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?; </p>
<p>Quite a few other colleges have similar strategies.</p>
<p>I, too, hate it when a top school tries to court a student, only to turn around and say NO ! As Tamiami said, the last thing a student needs is another rejection letter. This mental aspect of the rejection is more important than the other problems parents have objected to…</p>
<p>I think it is illegal, and unethical, at the very least, to raise a kid’s hopes with overt emails, free applications, “personalized” letters…and then dash them at the very last, and most dramatic moment . Can’t we start some kind of lawsuit? This stuff certainly has more merit than some of the frivolous lawsuits that have succeeded in the past.</p>
<p>I think that U Chicago has been the most reprehensible of the lot…look at the 42% jump. It’s all artificially whipped up, and look at the Chicago media that have trumpeted this “success”…I grant you, it’s a good school, but that doesn’t give it free license to raise and trample the hopes of an entire generation. And kids and parents can have
lo-ong memories.</p>
<p>Ohio State - Columbus (Main) applications up 27.4%!!!</p>
<p>Regional Campuses (total increase) 25.7%</p>
<p>*Lima 35.4%
*Mansfield 54.3%
*Marion 17.2%
*Newark 27.6%</p>
<h2>*Wooster (ATI) -1.2%</h2>
<p>----------> Main Campus - Columbus 27.4%</p>
<p>Source: [OSU</a> regional campuses’ lower costs, small size draw students | The Columbus Dispatch](<a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/02/26/at-osu-but-not-columbus.html?sid=101#]OSU”>http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/02/26/at-osu-but-not-columbus.html?sid=101#)</p>
<p>Go Bucks! :)</p>
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<p>What would be the basis of a lawsuit? What law says that this conduct is in any way illegal?</p>
<p>Harvard was the only school to actually send an application as its first and unsolicited mailing. I am sure they think that people will be so flattered that they will use it! We didn’t take the bait… I think that the only other schools that sent us applications were those we had expressed interest in.</p>
<p>This is the old bait 'n switch routine. Google it.I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t know the technicalities.</p>
<p>BlueJays, I don’t get your reference. The bait and switch involves luring in the customer with something and then saying it’s not available and offering something of lower value. Where’s the switch in the college admissions process?</p>
<p>As a high school senior, I don’t really see a problem with schools trying to get students to apply. When students take the ACT or SAT, they can check a box that allows colleges to contact them. I’m assuming your kids checked this box if they’re receiving “unsolicted” letters from schools. I think most seniors know their capabilities and have a generally good idea of where they have a chance of getting in. I personally think it’s a waste of resources for colleges to send out so many applications, but there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with it. I still get an obnoxious number of emails from schools even though most deadlines have past, but whatever; I signed up to allow them to contact me, so I can’t really complain. I got a letter from Harvard, but I know I couldn’t get in, so I didn’t apply–not to mention the fact that they don’t have the major I’m interested in. That’s all there is to it for me. Marketing in this way is a good, albeit annoying, idea, in my opinion.</p>
<p>this is why we should all wear condoms.</p>
<p>^Finally, someone is making some sense</p>
<p>wash u went from 23,000 apps to 25,000, approximately. WUSTL’s increase was about 9 percent, not 5 percent – dont know where that 5 percent figure came from</p>
<p>Actually it all reminds me of dating long ago (when it was dating, not hook ups). Mommas would warn daughters about the handsome fellow who wined and dined a girl but “wanted just one thing and won’t respect you after.” Daughters were expected to take a hard look at suitors to distinguish the truly committed from the shallow hard sell. </p>
<p>So all this email and fancy letter head stuff is shallow hard sell to our family until the sincere fat envelope shows up. And it is shallow hard sell also, if the school’s accepted student profile doesn’t align with our kid.</p>