<p>I will say that even though the majority of it is junk, there are a few jems.
I had never heard of Scripps until they sent me a brochure during the onslaught of college letters. It is now my number 2 choice school.</p>
<p>If you can weed through it, it might be helpful, especially if you still aren’t sure where you wanna go</p>
<p>What’s funny (sort of) are the repeated mails from schools that our kid would be extremely unlikely to get into unless we owned compromising photos of the admissions director. We had that going on with Stanford for a while. </p>
<p>The last holdouts for us have been Ithaca and Dickinson. Seems like we’ve gotten four or five pieces from Dickinson since Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>I’ve saved every piece of mail ds has received because I thought it would be fun to weigh it all. In a couple of months I’ll let you know how much it weighs.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, ds2, a freshman, has started receiving e-mails. Uh, let me rephrase that – I have begun receving e-mails because he put my address down. Grrrr. It didn’t occur to me to tell him not to mark that box because I didn’t think he’d score well enough to start getting the junk and, well, don’t they see he’s a freshman??? He is very flattered so I need to tell him that, to quote a song, it don’t mean a thing.</p>
<p>I remember SVA sent me these huge viewbooks. 75% of the pages consisted of pictures of NYC. I think the only thing that changed between the two books that they sent me was the cover. What a waste.</p>
Just found this old thread. My daughter is a HS junior, 31 ACT and 4.1 GPA. She’s practically being stalked. The e-mails are one thing, but in this age of the internet, the brochures are completely wasteful. I’m honestly surprised to hear that anyone has been swayed by a shiny letter they received. Colleges really need to start being more sensible about how they spend their money, or they’re going to cease to exist.