Case Western Reserve. Every week, to both him AND to me, with no indication ever of any returned interest from the future history major!
No harm in it, though.
Overall, it is fun to hear from colleges, even if we recycle some of the hard copies and send some emails to trash. Some of the colleges we have heard from are actually of interest to him, so we’ll gladly take the brochures and emails!
Chicago.
" (She hasn’t even taken the PSAT yet, so I’m sure we’ll get even more after that happens.)"
The same here.
Also, my other daughter has started getting stuff from U of Chicago as of last week…
Wash U here, too, for oldest son. He was accepted there.
In addition to why my cyber mom already said, JHU and WUSTL
These are so funny. The award for daily postcards in the mail for us goes to…St. Bonaventure and Mount Aloysius. I don’t even know where these schools are. Awards for the most expensive displays go to Yale (An incredibly boring 100-page book) and everyone’s favorite, U of Chicago. She has a 31 ACT, come on.
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That makes 2 of us. 
I actually liked the book. although if they had asked, I could have told them to save the postage.
Vanderbilt is the school that bombards us the most. Unlike UChicago, whose materials actually have some thought behind them, Vandy just recycles the same same five mailings over and over and over.
I was going through the Naviance information for Yale from our high school, and the acceptance rate for kids with a 31 was was higher than for kids with a 36. You never know with holistic schools.
Tons of literature from U Chicago and Macalester. To be fair, she signed up for Macalester. But U Chicago was relentless. However, she really loved their mailings, and they definitely win a prize for most creative literature. She enjoyed their stuff so much, that she considered applying.
As noted earlier Vandy and Chicago, but recently Northeastern has made a strong postal push. What’s odd is that they keep sending the same material over and over again. What a waste (and/or bad database management).
UChicago has a huge marketing budget and a thirst to catch Yale in the rankings. If your kid gets in, they then switch to swag – my kid got a couple of t-shirts, a winter scarf, a pizza cutter. Parents ended up with t-shirts, ball caps, pens, and a coffee table book. Probably even more, I just don’t remember.
Weekly mailings from UChicago, Many from Vanderbilt and Macalester. Tulane as well even got a special pin to use with application. We visited College of Wooster a while back while on an Oberlin visit day. They have been sending emails to me as well as my daughter…interesting that they are targeting parents.
Augustana (IL), St. Bonaventure, RPI and Mercer seem to send S18 mailers and email most frequently. Not sure why those in particular, as he has never expressed interest in any of them.
Unfortunately DS checked that box on the PSAT that said ‘spam me’. He also was inundated, especially from U Chicago. He didn’t apply there.
We have been getting tons of postcards and emails since spring of junior year. Latest is that students from Pace and Hobart have called him (he has never expressed an interest in either one!). I think he checked some box on Naviance that lets them contact him.
U Chicago. Not only do they send stuff to S about every week, they recently sent a cat-themed postcard to me.
Univ. of Evansville carpet bombed D1 with brochures, viewbooks, recruitment letters, post cards, etc. They just would not stop. She never expressed any interest in the school and they wouldn’t take No! for an answer. More stuff kept coming all summer long. They even sent her stuff after she had started school in the Fall at another college, saying “It’s not too late!”
UChicago sent the most and I was frankly surprised. It’s not as if they are hard up for applicants but their marketing budget must be huge. I also read somewhere on here that they are competing with Columbia to see who can attract the most applicants (Chicago should win given that they out-spam Columbia 3:1). And it continued after acceptance. We got things even after D. said “no”. Smith sent quite a bit, and then wrote and said they would hold my D’s application for two years in case she changed her mind and wanted to transfer.
UChicago…is it seriously necessary to send a mailing every 3 days for months on end? To a kid with a 27 ACT and 4.8 wGPA, that is not even in the running to be admitted? 2 days ago it was a mailing talking about their commitment to breaking down barriers of access to great education (I was thinking about sending it back with a note asking if they were willing to let down their ACT test score barrier and admit my kid!) Today it was a post card with a cat. I swear if they just took the money they spend on their mailings and applied it to world health issues or medical research or some such cause they could probably do some real good in the world.
Tulane, until I complained about their false advertising on CC. It’s came to a dead stop after that…hhhhmmm
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