@futureNU16 I find it hard to believe that Oberlin doesn’t spend heavily on marketing. In our little world it is the joke of my D’s friends because they send so many mailings and emails-- more Oberlin things arriving in our home than from any other school. There is the impression that they are trying to increase their applications to increase their rankings. The girls are constantly snapping with photos of them with their latest Oberlin mailing/postcard and sending it off to each other on snap chat. One friend has starting collecting them all (from the entire group) and they have been planning some type of “craft” and the pile is enormous-- not sure if they visited a table at the HS college fair (they don’t seem to remember if they did), if it is geographic targeting, if it is test score targeting, or if it is completely random.
The parents were all together last week for spring formal photos and we were wondering if any of the kids would end up applying as a result of all of the attention the school is getting from this group.