<p>Wondering how accepted students compare Chicago's efforts to persuade them to enroll to the post acceptance approaches of other colleges.</p>
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<p>Except for unalove and corranged, who have each sent me PMs, none. I found this disappointing. Do they even care that my S loves their school? I didn't expect love from FA, but something more than The Chronicle every two weeks might be effective in raising the yield.</p>
<p>disappointing? i've never gotten a message from anyone and im hopefully a 2012er...lol, and i dont even thing its disappointing...what do other colleges do?</p>
<p>Yea Countingdown, what exactly do you expect them to send you? I'm a 2012'er and I actually appreciate the Chronicle. It seems to me like its more than most other colleges do.</p>
<p>i got a call from a chicago student after i was admitted. although other schools sent me t-shirts and stickers...</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, I like reading The Chronicle! I've just known other students who have heard from colleges post-acceptance (we have one friend who was hounded by Emory for the entire month of April last year) and thought that with the game as it now seems to be played, that there might be more attention paid to generating yield. </p>
<p>S has heard from two of his other acceptances over the past month.</p>
<p>Oh I see. I'm kinda biased cause I'm so in love with this college that it's hard any university well sweep me off my feet like the uchi has.</p>
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<p>I think the lack of active solicitation is consistent with the Chicago "style". It's as though they say "we welcome you, we accept you, come if you like!" And then they let you make your decision. Tends to ensure that those who matriculate really want to be there.</p>
<p>I know kids accepted to Williams, Middlebury a few other smallish schools who are hounded with phone calls and emails. Some may like it but it can add to the stress of a decision. </p>
<p>I don't think Chicago wants to talk anyone into a decision. But I also know that it feels great to have schools show some love.</p>
<p>I felt like Chicago showed an appropriate amount of attention, making me feel wanted without inundating my inbox with emails every other day the way some schools to which I was accepted did. I got a Christmas card from my admissions counselor and a phone call from a student, and I have enjoyed receiving the Chronicle.</p>
<p>All I have to say is that I was looking forward to receiving a car sticker in the mail...and it never came :(</p>
<p>I see how the begging for attention translates into "love," but at least the way I see it, we treat you well once you get here, and that's what really counts :-)</p>
<p>Agreed. No doubt the Chicago experience is superb (and nurturing) once there; my question was directed at how folks are made to feel wanted beforehand.</p>
<p>I actually have appreciated Chicago's low-key approach to the April decision period, interpreting it as I have much as glasses has articulated. I think it's important kids choose their schools based on thoughtful analysis of who they are and how well that matches up with the culture of each of the schools to which they've been admitted. More marketing "love" usually doesn't assist with this kind of reflection and, if anything, sometimes clouds the picture by creating a rosy screen through which to view a school that disappears once the decision is made.</p>
<p>That said, it would be nice to get a window decal! I'm thinking this kind of stuff might start arriving once the admissions office knows for sure who's coming and starts sending out pre-O week materials.</p>
<p>I can't remember any fun stickers or college rah rah stuff but folders of material came throughout the summer and they were sucked into S's room with great joy. They seemed to be very satisfying. I think Chicago must have set up O-week nicely because he certainly knew what was going on when we arrived for move in.</p>
<p>I seem to remember getting one at one point. Or actually, I've gotten like, five, for showing up to various alumni events and the like. I can't remember if I got one pre-O-Week.</p>
<p>The CPO will send you the O-Book and the Insiders' Guide towards the end of the summer. Now thatttt's a thing of beauty.</p>
<p>I know we got a window decal in the mail, but it may have been during the summer. The Chicago window decal is quite classy -- illegible from a distance, Latin motto . . . no animal paw-prints there!</p>
<p>One of my graduate schools pulls out the big guns and has present investment bankers call the stronger kids who noted a desire to go into finance on their application. No better way to sell an 18 year old and his soon to be financial encumbered parents then a call from a rain banker. Added value when his secretary dials first and says something to the kids mother like, Good Evening, I have Managing Director Smith holding on the line from Morgan Stanley in New York with a private call for Mr. John Doe. Yes, Ms. Doe, not his farther, Mr. Doe himself on the matter of his admission to the University.</p>
<p>Hey guys, there are plenty of people still absorbed with UChi through the thickenvelope forums. www DOT thickenvelope DOT uchicago DOT edu...I go on there everyday and it reminds me, everyday, to go to the U of C. </p>
<p>Duke sends me emails like no other. It's getting a little annoying.
I do have a window decal, BUT I bought it! It was around 5-6 dollars at the UC Bookstore, when I went to their overnight. Yeah, it's pretty lame that they make you buy it, but it's bigger than the other schoolz stuff I've received. However, I'm pretty sure it is ALSO FREE on O-Week...they also give out free t-shirts, Citibank comes to help students with banking + gives students no annual fees too during that week, there's free bookbags, etc. too during O-Week.</p>