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Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, also goes after high school upperclassmen with a personal touch. Prospective students get birthday cards and phone calls from admission staff and sometimes even the college president.
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<p>That's so ridiculous! Birthday cards are kind of cute but creepy. I hate it when colleges I'm not interested in call me at home. They ask me if I'm still interested in X college and I say that I am not. Then they ask why not, and I say, "I didn't receive enough information about X college before I had already made my college decisions" or blah blah blah... but I had really been getting plenty of information about X; it's just that my dad throws out all this stuff in the trash as soon as we get it in the mail. Then they ask where I'm applying. I say Princeton, Yale, Columbia... Then they actually ask me to spell the colleges and say their locations, as if they'd never heard of these colleges before! Btw, I'm ranting because I've posted on the last ~25 threads on this board, and now I have nothing else to do.</p>
<p>I got a birthday card from them last Nov.! buahahaha</p>
<p>Lol I thought about her too when I saw that article, zant. Good times. I know it's high on her list, so the birthday card was probably just the icing on the cake :p</p>
<p>Oh yes Pton will have a hard time competing with that!</p>
<p>Colleges giving me stuff?! Sold!</p>
<p>Wait I already get stuff in the mail.</p>
<p>Boo!</p>
<p>Do you still? I find that mail has slowed down dramatically, thank goodness! I don't want big-non-acceptance-package-envelopes confusing me come April 1st!</p>
<p>Yeah it has slowed down quite a bit. I still get stuff from Pacific University though.</p>
<p>lol I think they think that you're an applicant!
teeheehee</p>
<p>The University of Evansville is STILL stalking me. I told them no a YEAR ago.</p>
<p>I used to get a lot from Texas A&M</p>
<p>Never even heard of it...
I don't open college mail anymore unless it's a college I applied to...</p>
<p>It's funny because at the beginning I was so excited to be getting mail and I would send back those postcards to the most random places. I think Hamilton has me on their mailing list twice: once as FirstName LastName and another as Lastname Firstname.</p>
<p>Texas A&M sends lots of mail to everyone lol. So does WashU.</p>
<p>I've actually never gotten anything from WashU</p>
<p>Oh wow. I've gotten like twenty pounds of mail from them. They used to send like a postcard thing every week. They're very into communication...</p>
<p>Yeah, I have like 10 different full 30-page books from them. And they send these pieces of paper that kind of look like bumper stickers but are really not. It's weird. But I've never gotten anything from Texas A & M. But some of the things other colleges send, I actually use: folders from Northeastern, huge plastic envelope from Johns Hopkins, periodic table from Reed, music CD from Tulane... good stuff.</p>
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I've actually never gotten anything from WashU
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Me, an intl, got their whole application without asking. :-/
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But some of the things other colleges send, I actually use: folders from Northeastern, huge plastic envelope from Johns Hopkins, periodic table from Reed, music CD from Tulane... good stuff.
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LMAO. I use the envelope to store all the app-related paperwork. I'd actually like that CD you mention.... :0)</p>
<p>I must have taken my name off the Tulane list before they sent out the CD.....my timing, as always, is bad.</p>
<p>Mmm...that it is, brewster. that it is. ;)</p>
<p>I've gotten a sh!tload of sh!t from NYU, the university of miami, and USC. None of is has made me want to apply to any of them, though.</p>