<p>i just got this letter from columbia encouraging me to apply there and with it came this "our columbia" brochure sort of thing (i submitted my app yesterday, btw)</p>
<p>is this something given out randomly? because one of my friends got sent a harvard application and his numbers aren't stellar by harvard standards
i didn't visit nor did i sign up to get anything</p>
<p>no clue how it's given out, but i doubt it means anything.</p>
<p>Probably somewhere along the way with standardized tests and such you probably checked a "releasing my information to potential colleges" box and they all get a list of people that scored to a certain standard on that test. </p>
<p>This is called direct marketing, its extremely easy to do and was probably done by the thousands.</p>
<p>Colleges want to encourage people with no chance to stupidly send in an application. It's $75 bucks for them and increases their selectivity numbers.</p>
<p>To be honest, I wish Columbia was involved in more self-promotion.</p>
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<p>I'm pretty sure $75 is meaningless to a school with over $34,000,000,000 in endowments.</p>
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<p>Do you know how a university works, how departments/offices of a university operate on a budget, and what endowments are used for? And do you know what the mathematical operation of multiplication is?</p>
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Gummy Bears and moving traffic violations</p>
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<p>QUICK, GIVE ME ANOTHER!</p>
<p>yeah, i've heard that they send apps to kids that prob won't get in...but why did they send me this letter so close to the deadline? a kid that wasn't intending on applying to columbia probably would not have had the time to prepare an application for the deadline.....</p>
<p>but it is probably nothing...i mean my stats are not amazing by columbia's standards......haha it would be nice though to have schools like this asking you to go there lol</p>
<p>ive gotten at least 6 different columbia packages in the past 3 months.</p>
<p>I'm sure that Columbia would benefit from the ensuing flood of junk applications if it went on a junk mail campaign like NYU and the like.</p>
<p>I could probably start a bonfire with the magazines, letters, books, pamphlets, and literature that NYU has sent me.</p>
<p>^No kidding</p>