<p>My son has high stats and will be applying to Chicago this fall. However, at this point the incessant post cards and other typical materials are probably doing more harm than good. </p>
<p>An admissions officer visited his HS recently, and did not even ask the kids to sign in or get any personal information from them. This seemed rather bizarre after spending so much effort on these mailings, and then not bothering to find out about the students who are truly interested in the school and intend to apply.</p>
<p>I’ve toured there so they got my info from that obviously, but I receive something from them almost every other day. Some of it is actually pretty cool like a big 5x4ish poster of the campus so I don’t mind it.</p>
<p>This thread is getting excited - many personal stories.</p>
<p>But I have not got any responses regarding how easy/difficult to remove one from the mailing list to make annoyed people happy. Any hints? I would like to see a win-win situation.</p>
<p>I’ve been receiving mail from them (glossy pamphlets and personalized postcard with my name on front), even though my scores are sub-par to theirs.I’m in the same boat as the OP. It’s just a marketing ploy. I’ve even gotten a letter from Harvard asking me to consider applying. </p>
<p>I’ve read of people who’ve gotten letters from Ivy’s but ultimately wound up getting rejected from most of them.</p>
<p>We have asked them to remove email by unsubscribing at bottom of their emails but they keep sending tons of stuff anyway. Totally not interested in attending, but they keep sending. Made us really not like it at all. Way too much stuff.</p>
<p>I’m from NJ, and I’ve gotten mail from them since I first took the PSAT sophomore year, mostly the paper kind. Yes, I appreciate their fantastic designs, the creativity that goes into them, and how they encourage their advertising audience to participate by drawing or coming up with witty responses. However, I’ve thought for a while that it’s silly that one of the most expensive schools in the nation doesn’t find a better way to use all that money it puts into advertising. I don’t know how the system works, but it’d be better if they could cut down a little on the mail and fund an extra scholarship or two… I literally got a short novel from them a few months back and I also haven’t even demonstrated interest in the school. As nice all the ads are, they’re wasting their money. They just want more people to apply.</p>
<p>Are you still getting emails? How long have you been receiving materials since you unsubscribed via email link?</p>
<p>In theory the mail address and email should come from one source. If UChicago has your email it should have your mail address too. By looking up email it should not be difficult to remove your contact information. A lag time?</p>
<p>My D has also received tons of stuff from Chicago. We have tried unsubscribing but it just keeps coming. This school would be a long shot for her and she isn’t interested (she is only interested in West Coast colleges). I can’t help thinking they are trying to boost their selectivity numbers by getting students to apply then reject them. There sure have wasted a lot of money!</p>
<p>I’ve seen several colleges that send me lots of spam in the mail (in my senior year now), with no way to unsubscribe that I can find. Some of these colleges don’t even offer the major I want. Maybe it’s just me, but the more you spam me, the less I will consider applying to your college. Nowadays, I tend to throw most of it in the recycle bin as soon as I pick up the mail.</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten any spam from U of Chicago though.</p>
<p>I got emails from UChicago and other things in the past four years, and it was kind of one email every two days. I used to get excited about the email they sent to me, and i looked up online about UChicago, and maybe thats the reason why they sent emails to people. Right now when I saw emails from UChicago or other universities, I just delete email about college once a week.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a matter of whether you are in the mid-score range that the school is looking for or not. See, I’ve been getting letters from them, and my test scores are horrible (hopefully only for the time being). What they’re probably doing is to get you to try and apply for their school so they can either:
Raise their % of selectivity by raising the applicant pool
Accept you if you are selected and earn some cash off you.</p>
<p>We have been receiving a load of U of C mail. The most amusing part of it to us is that we already went through with meeting the football recruiting coach for U of Chicago and heard it was a no-go. Yet the school still send us all sorts of mail. Big, oversized, fat brochure-filled envelopes, even.</p>
<p>I think a very specific set of college-educated people know how elite UC is. People like stem majors, econ majors and perhaps law school students or graduates. The rest of them have NO idea how competitive it is. Even classmates who know most of the top tier US News school rankings tend to forget about U of C.</p>
<p>When my daughter was selecting a college three falls ago, the colleges that sent the most literature were U of C. NYU and MIT. My daughter had great test scores on some tests she took as a sophomore and I’m certain this is why she was getting literature from such elite places. </p>
<p>I’m certain the point of bombarding mailboxes with, in some cases, book sized promotions is to get applications up and keep the acceptance rate low. The amount of money spent by U of C and NYU had to be huge.</p>
<p>While MIT didn’t send as much, I was amused at the content of some of their literature. I speculated (and might be totally wrong) that that she was on their list because she scored high in math and had a girlish sounding first name. (or maybe female was checked on the tests.) I guessed they were seeking girls because the literature seemed skewed that way. One brochure especially featured a multitude of attractive yet serious looking girls studying away. The few boys included one hunk in a speedo getting out of a swimming pool. The other couple of males were equally, but less nakedly hunky too. And, like all schools, there were groups of ethnically mixed kids playing board games together–you know–just like what happens continuously on every campus.</p>
<p>Anyone else detect possible gender related marketing to male dominated institutions?</p>
<p>I have checked MIT’s web site before and remember the girl to boy admission ratio is almost 2:1.</p>
<p>What I mean is that x girls had applied and 2x boys had applied during 2012-2013 (or another) school year. The number of admitted girls and the number of admitted boys were roughly equal (40+ % vs 50- %).</p>
<p>So MIT might want to attract more girls due to its STEM reputation.</p>