<p>Hey experienced parents. Once all the application periods have passed will all the brochures and mailings stop? I am really really hoping they have graduation dates in their databases and we are not on some permanent mailing list!</p>
<p>The Military mailings continue.</p>
<p>Some schools...and many that send literature...have multiple application deadlines. But it does decrease after January...and its stops by mid-late spring of Senior year.</p>
<p>Then the credit card mailings begin . . .</p>
<p>The credit card mailings are already here. Six this week already!</p>
<p>The army still hasn't figured out that my DD is now a college junior. Hmmm... speaks volumes about their intelligence gathering capabilities!!! :eek:</p>
<p>Here's a funny one. </p>
<p>I just rec'd a postcard from a school D said "no thank you" to in the spring...the postcards reads...</p>
<p>Dear Parent of 2010 student,
Thank you for joining us 2 weeks ago at the family weekend. We hope you and ... (it has her name printed on it!) enjoyed yourselves and that you had a chance to meet...'s new friends and even some teachers. Before you know it...will be studying for finals and their second semester will begin. Please take a moment blah, blah, blah!</p>
<p>Ummm, I hope they "know" that she's not enrolled! Obviously they don't do a bed check!!</p>
<p>She still is getting invites to apply for art schools. And credit cards.</p>
<p>My son's a freshman and a few of the mailings continued well into the fall - nothing at all like the tsunami of the last couple of years though. This was mostly small and community colleges.</p>
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<p>Heh. Some of the smartest colleges in the country are still sending my second son literature from an SAT he took in 7th grade. Admittedly, he is still in 9th grade, so they have some chance of attracting him eventually, but three and four years early seems a little premature.</p>
<p>Maybe I'll just move!</p>
<p>In the summer you may get some mail from schools that didn't fill their freshman class. Just throw them away, by then you will have already made your choice.</p>
<p>NYU never gives up. After the kid fails to apply and/or enroll, they figure the kid will still want to sign up for their summer study abroad programs... so basically it's more, but different, mail.</p>
<p>The army knows your kid is in college. But they also know that a lot of kids drop out of college. And those who drop out might be looking for something else to do -- for example, joining the military.</p>
<p>Despite what Kerry thinks, these people are not stupid.</p>
<p>My sister started receiving mail from the army in middle school. She wanted a free tshirt, so she created her own "Seventh Grade" box on the postcard and sent it back. The reply was a letter asking her to express her interest again in a few years.</p>
<p>She's four years behind me in school, yet somehow she started getting college-related mailings before I did.</p>
<p>DD is a college freshman. She is STILL getting mail from several colleges to apply for admission as a freshman...oops. DS is now a senior. He was still receiving mail about freshman applications at the end of his sophomore year. Interesting that the schools sending the mail to them once they were in college did NOT send them a thing when they were in high school. Very odd.</p>
<p>My D has been getting college mail since she took the ACT in 8th grade. I think they don't look at the age of the person taking the test, they just say "hey, someone else is interested in going to college" and start sending mail. It wasn't much at first, but for every test she took after that it just became more and more. As for the military stuff I still get it periodically and I've been out of college for 19 years! I think whatever you put as your intended major on the SAT and ACT they keep it forever if it's something they might be able to use such as nursing or engineering.</p>
<p>You know, we're still getting mail asking us to renew our d's subscription to Highlights for Children! So I don't expect much to stop now.</p>
<p>My mother was an avid traveler, who went on several cruises and international study tours during the last years of her life. When she died in 1999, I had all of her mail forwarded to my address so that I could pay any bills that came in. Even now, seven years later, glossy, expensive travel brochures arrive at my house at least once a week. Apparently, mailing lists make people immortal.</p>
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<p>Or the second cousin to this phenomenon -- sending lit a little late in the game. We've had a shoeboxful of mail from UChicago and Yale, but -- inscrutably -- junior just received his first contacts from Princeton last week. I appreciate it and all but the kind of students most likely to be accepted at HYPSMC&c were all filling out apps last March, right?</p>
<p>Borgin - Did she get the T-shirt? D1 (will be college jr. in Jan.) only gets invitations to attend summer school at NYU, along with all the credit card offers of course.</p>