<p>I'm very surprised I've recieved mail from from Cornell University. I never thought I would have mail from a Ivy League. I remember when I found out Cornell University was a Ivy League I knew it being on my list would have been easy to assume a rejection, since I do not have Ivy League grades. Still surprise I got mail from Cornell University, I sometimes assume maybe I applied to their mailing list myself. Eventhough if I didn't apply to their mailing list I know it doesn't mean they want me as a student, or anything... but in some cases for students ( 4.0+'s) I'm sure that could be likely.
Title of mail: " any person... any study"
Have anyone recieved this mail from Cornell, and sign their mailing list?
Also have anyone just recieved mail from Cornell, or any Ivy League...</p>
<p>I’ve heard about the mailings from Harvard and I find it quite irritating for the following reason.</p>
<p>The explanation I heard and that I think is true is that Harvard is the hardest school to get into and they like being able to say that so they actively recruit applicants. Yes, they send mailings to people who have virtually no chance of getting in. I find it irritating because every rejection Harvard sends out has an applicant on the receiving end and by recruiting applicants they are just going to reject they seem to be forgetting that. It’s about their stats, not about the people.</p>
<p>Anyway, there are a lot of things I like about Harvard, this just doesn’t happen to be one. So I wouldn’t read too much into having gotten a mailing from Cornell, but if you want to go there you should apply.</p>
<p>Mailings from top schools are, as has been said, just to recruit kids (particularly the low income who otherwise wouldn’t have thought of applying to schools known for educating America’s elite).</p>
<p>They’re no big deal and you shouldn’t get your hopes up if you get mailings from top schools.</p>
<p>Universities are businesses. They send out advertisements to attract people to their business. Usually they do it by the Student Search Service on the SAT, but there are other ways of getting names of potential students/customers that don’t have to do with scores and grades. It doesn’t raise your chances of getting in, they’re just ads.</p>
<p>Well it’s a 60 page book ( environmental saving book: by specified paper and printer etc…), and have increased my interest in the university. I haven’t got the chance to read everything within it that I would like, but I will eventually. I guess it could have just been for advertisement, though with the interest in the university I’ve have reguardless was a surprise to recieve mail from the school.</p>
<p>Guys … these are mailing lists. They don’t mean any more personal interest in you than any other catalog or any other piece of advertising mail you might receive. I’m sure your parents receive all kinds of junk mail from all kinds of businesses / services, who want their attention. Don’t take it seriously! It is what it is. </p>
<p>I just went and got my mail. I have mailings from local car dealerships, a local eye care shop, several grocery stores, a tire chain, and a cruise company. It doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t mean they care about me as a person and am dying to have me, me and only me buy their cars / glasses / food / tires / vacations. I am rather surprised that high schoolers have such naivete. It’s just a direct mailing list that they cull from wherever – SAT’s, PSAT’s, ACT’s, any one of a number of lists.</p>
<p>Yeah it was all for advertisement, I just found out a relative of minds ( who go to the same high school as me) also recieved the same mail today. So my question has now been easily answered by his brother.</p>