Handwritten Cards?

<p>Anybody get any handwritten cards from colleges in the mail? </p>

<p>3 completely different colleges (and I'm talkin' about polar opposites in almost every aspect) have sent me nice cards, which obviously took about 2-3 minutes to write, even if they did have a monotonous message to write to thousands of others, and I was flattered by this gesture. </p>

<p>Should I have been? Are these colleges really more likely to care about me as an individual or is it a clever marketing ploy? </p>

<p>Any insight would be appreciated.</p>

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<p>So it was a generic message? If so, yeah, marketing stuff; of course the colleges want you to think they’re warm and fuzzy caring places. But it sure worked didn’t it? ;)</p>

<p>^Well, they were somewhat generic, but not blaringly so. All of them also consisted of roughly a paragraph and were written by admission directors or students, and one of them was a large state school (go figure?).</p>

<p>Still, it seems like a wasted effort to send these out to the THOUSANDS of students who have expressed an interest in their school, especially considering the prohibitive cost of initiating such a measure.</p>

<p>Okay, now I got a book from a college. </p>

<p>A legit, hardback book that would probably cost about $15 dollars in a store, plus $5 in shipping. Just because this college did that, I’m applying. :)</p>

<p>I also know what I’ll be doing to help myself go to sleep tonight ;)</p>

<p>CUNY Baruch sent me a handwritten happy holiday card. Didnt apply or show interest, thought it was odd.</p>

<p>I’ve gotten a few, yeah. But I also got to meet/email the people who wrote the cards and we talked about it, and I felt they were genuine cards. :3</p>