<p>That huge thing MIT sent out was cool to get in the mail, but the pics/info were not so great.</p>
<p>Chicago's is pretty cool.</p>
<p>I just finished going through the whole admissions process and I thought SMU had the nicest viewbook.</p>
<p>Vassar sent out something with a bunch of professors' dogs on it. That sucked.</p>
<p>I thought the Williams acceptance was pretty cool... I liked the way the theme of the viewbook was carried on with the acceptance folder:)</p>
<p>Wellesley's was very nice. It was spiral bound, very detailed, very colorful, good, glossy, thick paper. Nicely sized-- not very big, but descriptive and with lots of pictures.</p>
<p>I remember liking Mount Holyoke's viewbook as well-- it was pretty large, glossy. Not as many words and descriptions as Wellesley's, but overall, MHC had the better mailing materials. They sent me lots of very lovely pamphlets. :)</p>
<p>USC was awesome-- I got a comparatively small, thick, compact type Guidebook/viewbook, and it was beautiful. It was like a novel sized book with gorgeous pictures and detailed descriptions of all the different schools at Southern Cal. </p>
<p>The 'SC acceptance package was fantastic too-- thick, with a certificate, two guidebooks and letters of acceptance packaged into a big, crimson red folder with a Trojan on the front and a "Welcome to the Trojan Family" written on the bottom of the cover. Very Cool. </p>
<p>Agnes Scott College in ATL, GA. There's was very large, glossy, with a ton of photos, nice graphics. Just felt good to look at. Very nice.</p>
<p>Also good: Vassar, Kenyon, Occidental</p>
<p>Not so good: Georgia Tech (they didn't give a guidebook, but a bunch of large-sized, skinny pamphlets), the Claremont Colleges (glossy but not very substantial, not many pictures), Randolph-Macon Woman's College (it wasn't bad, exactly, but too small, I felt).</p>
<p>i liked yales... i randomly got it in the mail today. it has a cute little bulldog on a blue cover. timeless.</p>
<p>Middlebury's was gorgeous.</p>
<p>Wow Peals, I didn't know the USC viewbook had changed so much. I remember mine from a few years back was a poster sized book of what was great about USC, profiles with cartoons of famous professors, intro's to each school, a day in the life of three students, and the top things to do in Los Angeles with photos (for instance "Best Sunday Drive" with directions to Mt. Baldy from USC).</p>
<p>It's a little outdated but I kept mine b/c it was so cool. 'Makes a neat coffee table book.</p>
<p>Boston University has a beautiful viewbook as well.</p>
<p>When I got my MIT one it was the most fun thing ever to read.</p>
<p>Sounds like USC knows what a girl likes, besides trinkets and beads!</p>
<p>the best one is definitely</p>
<p>Southern Mississippi Community College's viewbook</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>two thumbs way way down for WUSTL...plus they bombard you with tons of *<strong><em>...they can go *</em></strong> themselves.</p>
<p>agreeeeed :)</p>
<p>I thought that Chicago and Johns Hopkins had the best viewbooks, with Hopkins having a slightly better viewbook. They were the only viewbooks I got that actually described each of their programs. Chicago also sent out other neat stuff, like a course book and Chicago Life. </p>
<p>Brown, Yale, Penn, Stanford, etc. were more like "We have wonderful programs! We are the best science/history/whatever school! We are so diverse! We have a lovely campus-come here!" Blah. If Penn took out "Ivy League" and "first in..." its viewboook would drastically shrink. </p>
<p>Bombardment? No, that prize goes to Case Western. I got a postcard from them almost everyday.</p>
<p>bombardment=WUSTL. postcards, course books, and plus they (for some reason) thought I was really, really into pottery/art and kept on sending me art brochures. gahhhh! i've never even taken an art class since i entered high school.</p>
<p>I like Brown and Wellesley's viewbooks. I also liked UChicago's "interactive" approach with Postcards that you could fill out and send in answering random, but interesting questions. Also, Babson's viewbook was really neat with a see-through zip-lock envelope that looked very high-tech. did anyone else get this one? I saved it, even though i didn't end up applying there!</p>
<p>My favorites were Reed and Wesleyan. Reed's was just so quirky and charming, it made me fall in love with the school, and gave me the ability to write a very good "why reed" essay even though I had never visited the campus. Then when I was accepted, I decided I couldn't bring myself to go all the way across the country. Reed is the only college I really regretted turning down. The others were similar enough that I felt like it didn't matter too much which I went to, but Reed seemed different...but it was also the only one I didn't visit.
Wesleyan's I just really liked. There was a thing on housing that was neat, it had lots of pictures that let me get a feel for the school, almost more than my campus visit did.
Amherst's didn't make such a big impression on me, but I still go back and look things up in it sometimes.
I would give the award for the worst acceptance package to Oberlin. They were so friendly when I visited and interviewed, then the acceptance letter was kind of cold and grumpy sounding.</p>