<p>Today, the University of New Mexico sent me a "Certificate of Merit". Yeah, I lol'd for a while. I'm sure many on here got the same spam. I've found that a lot of that barrage of college mail (I curse the day I checked the "yes! tell colleges I exist!" box on my PSAT scantron) has been downright absurd. Some schools get creative with it, but some just send me weekly postcards so that I can fill a scrapbook with pictures of girls giggling in a chem lab and magestic buildings. So what's the best/worst mail you've received?</p>
<p>Best: Handwritten postcard from a Carleton alumnus who lives 25 minutes away inviting me to ask her any questions I may have about Carleton or the college process in general.</p>
<p>Worst: Probably Caltech, because there’s no way I’d get in, let alone go there.</p>
<p>Honorable Mention: SUNY Geneseo sent me a shirt. That was kinda nice.</p>
<p>Best: Chicago postcards! Hilarious; i always looked forward to getting the next one in the mail. Caltech’s were always interesting and pretty cool too.</p>
<p>Worst: Harvard sent me something about being Asian, and an application. Yeck.</p>
<p>I got that “certificate of merit” too, lol! :).</p>
<p>^ I sleep in my free SUNY Geneseo shirt all the time :D</p>
<p>I think the only one that was so ridiculous that I actually saved was from Marist. It had two typos in it, for one thing, and the subject was something like “Do you want to have FUN in college?”. I just thought it was so funny that* that’s* what they chose to focus on in the one email I ever got from them. No mention of academics.</p>