<p>answer to this "dilemma": recycle</p>
<p>pick some out. dish the rest. :)</p>
<p>Throw it in your fireplace and use it for fuel.</p>
<p>today I realized the best thing about getting in ED... well second or third best thing lol.</p>
<p>I took a big trashbag and just threw out dozens of college viewbooks, letters, and applications, only saving stuff from my future college (UPenn).</p>
<p>It's very fun....</p>
<p>The mail is finally starting to die down around here. But for a long time there would be days where I was the only one in the house to get any mail. Or I'd get 20 pieces and mom would get 3 or 4.
Around here the big offenders are Virginia Weslyan, St Anselms (I'm positive mom put me on their list to TRY to keep me at home...), Skidmore (enough of those dumb postcards already) and University of Vermont.
I've been hauling a trashcan full of brochures out of my room at least a couple times a week, and there's still a big pile. And I've been throwing stuff out for at least a year now. They started coming sophomore year. First ever college thing, a letter from the University of Montana at Bozeman. Sorry, I've been to Bozeman, and I'm not going to school there.</p>
<p>Sophomore got his PSAT scores today and his 2 first pieces of mail: Emory and Tulane. It begins again.</p>
<p>We've been told the PSAT scores will come home next Thursday. HOWEVER, we are already receiving new college mail. This week DD has received at least 20 college mailings (no kidding)...everything from postcards to glossy books. At least we can attribute these mailings to the taking of the PSAT...it will be interesting to see how many duplicates she receives. I find it simply amazing that the colleges have DD's name and address before WE have the PSAT scores.</p>
<p>Write the four year cost on the cover and leave it in the nearest pediatricians office, give some parents a head start.</p>
<p>It makes a nice bonfire, although the smell of burning ink isn't all too pleasant.</p>
<p>(Just kidding.)</p>
<p>Lately I have been getting sooooooo much mail for being a National Hispanic Recognition Finalist... I've gotten 10 trillion letters from Texas A&M, tons from Wash U(St. Louis), U. Wash.... it's insane!</p>
<p>Question for expat parents: does any of this mail make its way overseas?
I've recieved nothing whatsoever, even though I've filled out forms at college fairs and ticked the little 'please send me mail' box on the PSATs.</p>
<p>My brother is a sophmore, and he got his PSAT scores this week. That same day, he got his first college letter from Emmanuel. It's never going to stop in my house!</p>
<p>Regardless of how one feels about WashU's spamming(I detest it, and it is one of the reasons I won't apply), it has worked to increase the amount of received applications, and, consequently, to significantly push down its acceptance rate and increase notoriety. It has become a chique school, and the "Ivy of the South". To be sure, its campus, faculty, and student body are all excellent. But a Harvard student put into words for me what many feel: that WashU is overrated.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Harvard student put into words for me what many feel: that WashU is overrated.>></p> </blockquote>
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<p>I hate to point out the obvious...but what would you EXPECT a Harvard student to say? That Wash U is an excellent university. That students are willing and wanting to go there because of its fine programs? My kiddo is actually looking at Wash U and wouldn't walk across the street to look at any of the Ivies. Different strokes for different folks.</p>
<p>LOL. I second that!
Donate it to your counselor! :D</p>
<p>Clarkson University is definitely the winner for me! Somehow, I got on their mailing list twice: once, with a period after my middle initial, and once without one! They send me mail every week, sometimes twice a week, sometimes in envelopes without a return address, and everything in TWO exemplars/copies!</p>
<p>my mail started coming my Freshman year of HS after I took the PSAT... I got mail from all over the place. No Ivies, but almost everyone else it seemed. The famed Cornell in Iowa, Chicago, Northwestern, Miami, Tulane sent me the free application fall of sr year.</p>
<p>In 3 years, only 1 school got me to apply b/c of their mailings: Macalester (just kinda did it for the hell of it, 90% sure I was gonna be instate).
The school that almost won the chance to read my app (haha isn't this a nice way to think of it): Oberlin.</p>
<p>I have no idea how much it weighed or anything, but I can tell you this: it was definitely way too much. Do people honestly apply to a bunch of schools because of what they get in the mail?</p>
<p>The type of college mail gets even funnier as the years/months roll by and the schools get more and more desperate. Mid-January in senior year (after pretty much all deadlines had passed) I was getting letters from Tulane and Johns Hopkins to the effect of "PLEASE APPLY ... We've extended the deadline for you!!! We've waived the application fee!!! We've even filled in some portions of it so you don't have to!!" By that time it was apparent that the schools were quite anxious and that the "application" process was just a formality ... </p>
<p>So keep those schools that are harassing you in mind - they may make good safeties!! :P</p>
<p>"Most prolific mailer: Washington U. St. Louis"
--ha, that is so funny. but, i know exactly how you feel. Washu sends me at least two publications or e-mail every week. but, i really don't mind because i like washu.</p>
<p>Schools send so much mail to arouse an interest within potential students. And I will admit, sometimes the glossy viewbooks and mawkish letters have made me take second looks at schools that I otherwise would be disinterested in. </p>
<p>But, if one particular school starts to become harrassing, then I would suggest that you completly ignore that school. If that doesn't help, then a tactful letter or e-mail, explaining how you feel, to the appropiate persons should do it.</p>
<p>submit the basic info form and then go to your counselor in october and have them submit the counselor form to WashU.</p>
<p>That should significantly decrease your mailings. And when they start getting worried again around early december, submit the common app suplement.</p>