<p>Lately, my son has been getting about 10 emails per day. Will it get worse?
How many emails/brochures did you child get? 500? 1000?</p>
<p>Emails-none…i never gave out my email 
Brochures-I’d guess around 500…it filled two trash bags</p>
<p>I regret giving my e-mail. Even as a senior now, I’m getting last minute college pleas for extended deadline application</p>
<p>My child is a junior. So, I guess it is going to get worse.</p>
<p>^ I KNOWWWW. </p>
<p>They’re like we’ve extended the deadline for you for the 309586 time. Because we want to so much, we’ve even waivered the application fee AND you don’t even have to write an essay. Whenever I unsubscribe from their mailing list, I get emails like that from another college. -_- So yeah, it’s never going to end.</p>
<p>How about the phone calls - Temple University got our phone number some how - they call several times a week.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Temple used to call me. I answered once, and they tried to sell their school to me (sorry, way too large!), and I haven’t picked up since. They’ve died off recently, though.</p>
<p>I keep getting those “We’ve extended the deadline for you”/'There’s still time to apply!“/Finish your application, there’s still time!” emails, too. Quite annoying. :|</p>
<p>Not many phone calls but I think the mailman is happy college application season is over - between college fairs and things like NMSF, NHRP, etc it was a lot of mail for the last 2 years or so. There are a few pieces of mail and emails still coming.</p>
<p>I think more emails were sent this year than snail mail but my girls did get a lot of postcards. I think what’s bad for a procrastinator type is to see the million “extended deadlines” even after their regular 2/1 deadline. They are still getting some from a few colleges as of yesterday!
One daughter put MY email down on her first collegeboard test (bless her) so I have the fun of deleting the emails. : )
Re phone calls, they mainly got them from colleges they applied too, I don’t remember any from colleges they didn’t.</p>
<p>For parents of future applicants: tell your kids not to check that box on the SAT’s or ACT’s!</p>
<p>The only information that our family receives is info that we have requested specifically from the schools, and even that is too much!</p>
<p>But at least we know which schools are sending stuff and can unsubscribe.</p>
<p>Both my H (alumnus) and my S (h.s. senior) who have the same official name, get calls from Temple. Since neither of them go by their legal name, I know when the call comes in that it is not something I need to call them to the phone.</p>
<p>The following was posted here on CC a few years ago:</p>
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<p>Don’t worry. It’ll all stop after May 1st of your senior year :)</p>
<p>Wow… I feel old. In 2003, I wasn’t spammed with e-mails from colleges… I’d better remind my 15 year old cousins not to put their e-mails down for any colleges until their app time!</p>
<p>Yes, most does stop, but my son, a senior in college still gets Marist and NYU (which he never even inquired about) sending him summer class information and grad school info.
NYU sends heavy catalog-type books, they do spend a lot of money on mailing, something I think they wouldn’t have to do.</p>
<p>“… you will have received 10,784 letters, brochures, and other fliers from no less than 985 colleges…”. Now that is crazy. My son replied some emails with our telephone number. I hope we are not in trouble.</p>
<p>D had very good PSAT, just missed NM Commended by 2 or 3 points. Grades were at the top of her class.We got relatively little mail from colleges and not one thing from her #1 college choice (NYU). </p>
<p>I don’t know whether to feel left out or lucky :)</p>
<p>I do not think college emails are based on PSAT scores. My son is getting emails from all different types of schools.</p>
<p>I have heard (don’t know if true) that schools do target students with high test scores. One piece of mail we received from a very top school arrived shortly after D got her ACT scores and referenced her high math score (it was). </p>
<p>I do know that many of the students I know with high test scores seemed to get a LOT more of this than student with lower scores, so I think there may be some connection. (except for D).</p>
<p>Yeah, some of these schools really come across as being incredibly desperate. The ones that keep extending deadlines over and over look particularly needy; begging for applications. I guess they don’t care how unbecoming it is as long as long as they generate a few more applications.</p>
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<p>I second that. It is very easy. My daughter did that the first time she registered for the PSAT as a sophomore and every time she took a test. I didn’t even have to tell her. </p>
<p>The only thing is, you have to be prepared to feel a little less loved. Everyone around you will be getting tons of college email and brochures, and you will get nothing. Unless you ask for it.</p>