<p>Do all colleges have an 'official' dean's list? I see these in our local newspaper every few months and wonder where they get the information from.</p>
<p>No - they all don't have a dean's list. Our daughter has a 3.8 gpa at Mount Holyoke but has never been mentioned in the local paper. When I called the school, they said there is no dean's list. Mount Holyoke is a great school, but it would be better if they did the bragging for you.</p>
<p>My school doesn't have a dean's list. The culture here very much promotes learning and challenging yourself over obsessing about numbers, and the collaborative environment and small size would make it weird to be singling people out for a particular gpa.</p>
<p>A lot of school's have them, but don't send them to local papers. They're not as much into the PR thing, I guess.</p>
<p>(which is, I think, a good thing.)</p>
<p>My school has dean's list, but my hometown paper does not print dean's list announcements.</p>
<p>My S's school has a Dean's list. The names of students from our town who make the Dean's list appear in our local suburban small town newspaper but not in the nearby "big city newspaper".</p>
<p>Our paper will virtually print just about anything you tell them to, if you write up the announcement for them. They have a weekly "hometown" page for stuff like student news. If you want it in the paper, write up a little blurb and send it in with a picture.</p>
<p>My son's school sends stuff to the local paper. The first semester he was on the list someone commented to me in the store and I was like "huh". Seems some schools use the pr to try to get other students interested in that school.</p>
<p>^ What ebeeee said.</p>