Our son has gotten several in the last month from SUNY Binghamton, even though we live in Maryland.
I would say U Chicago is not only the most but the earliest. Very few schools can sustain UChicago style weekly mailings for over two years like grocery filers.
It has worked out very well for U Chicago. The game is to make as many students as it can attract through this marketing initiative and bring down the acceptance rate. Many private universities indulge in this game to make sure that the selectivity factor improves the public perception. At the end of the day, most of us like to associate prestige with quality, which is difficult to deny!
@mstomper, we are in TEXAS and my son has been getting weekly cards from SUNY Binghamton since early July.
Well, we are just getting mailings since the June ACT but my kid has received 4 mailings from Carleton College in the past week.
Wittenberg University and University of Chicago has been sending multiple mailings of cards and letters for the look at 3 weeks .last
Kenyon, Hamilton, Gettysburg.
My daughter is bombarded by Swarthmore, although their marketing materials are funny and memorable, so maybe we just remember them the best. Also get a lot from U of Chicago, Bradley, Kenyon, and our in-state schools (Colorado).
Your kids must be very smart. My son gets Tulane, Mount St Mary’s., Northeastern, Wingate, Lynchburg, Alabama, Arizonia State, Hampden-Sydney, RPI, Fordham, Champlain, Indiana
OP here… the Vandy stuff has stopped entirely. But now it seems to be really picking up from St. Lawrence.
Now High Point University, Reed College, University of Chicago, Harvey Mudd, Arizona State and Yale.
Seton Hall with 3 different mailings this week, and about 15 in the last 2 months.
Swarthmore is making me feel guilty with very persistent emails to my son. I actually think he would have loved it there-- but by the time we got to the Pennsylvania leg of his college tour, we already had visited and liked several ‘reach’ schools (defined as having an admissions percentage under twenty-five percent; his stats are a match), and we all thought he didn’t need any more.