<p>D has applied to 3 schools and has been admitted to 2 so far.</p>
<p>When will all the unsolicted mail from the other 3000 colleges stop????</p>
<p>Are there really kids who contact a school for the first time in January?</p>
<p>Sadly, MaryTN, we are still receiving an occasional piece of college-related promotional material and solicitation addressed to my older son... two full years after he was accepted EA to the university at which he is now a sophomore.</p>
<p>Some folks find that bundling up the materials and donating them to the library or a high school guidance office is appreciated by the recipients. Otherwise, recycling is your friend.</p>
<p>If you figure out a way to make the mail stop...please let us all know. DD is a freshman and DS is a senior (both in college) and both still receive mail inviting them to apply to schools...for undergrad.</p>
<p>I used to give all my college mail to my younger siblings so they could use them for school projects (collages, etc.).</p>
<p>When my daughter decided that she did not want to apply to particular colleges last year, she asked me to contact the colleges for her and request removal from their lists. I emailed each one, providing info exactly as it appeared on the mailing lists, and simply requested that my d. be removed from their list. The mail stopped.</p>
<p>Yes, this does put a burden on the mail recipient.... but it also works. If you tell them you don't want the mail, they won't send it.</p>
<p>At our house, the college-related mail is the least of it.</p>
<p>I am the executor of the estates of three deceased relatives; all of the mail sent to any of them comes to my address. One of them was an avid traveler, the second contributed to a wide variety of charities, and the third was fond of catalog shopping. All have been dead for at least two years, but the mail never stops.</p>
<p>Between the college literature and the junk mail for dead people, it's amazing that the mail carrier can even squeeze the occasional bill or letter into our mailbox.</p>
<p>another suggestion ... after receiving each piece of mail write "Refused - Return to Sender" in big red letters on the envelope and put it where you receive your mail. The post office should return it to the sender at the sender's expense (or I guess the post office might just dump it).</p>
<p>To echo Marian's post, I am the "resident agent" for numerous state registered corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. You would not believe the amount of credit card offers, "special" loan offers, service come-ons, etc. that I receive.</p>
<p>Marian--I have heard writing "deceased" on the junk mail and returning it will take care of the problem.</p>
<p>mommusic. I did that to my alma mater once when I was an impoverished postdoctoral fellow. To my consternation, my family soon started to receive condolences from my classmates. Apparently my demise was in the alumni news. Unfortunately, alumni news never printed my resurrection after I sent in a donation when I obtained my first teaching job. It still amuses me when I see posts like yours.</p>
<p>Marian, I hate to tell you this but my father passed away 11 years ag and I still get the occasional mailing or telemarketing phone call for him. And, he never lived at my address nor had mail forwarded here. Strangest one came last year - someone trying to sell him a life insurance policy, 10 years after he died. A little late I would say.</p>
<p>And, as for college solicitations...just wait until Feb/March. That's when my daughter started receiving the phone calls from colleges she had expressed no interest in wondering why they hadn't yet received her application. :)</p>
<p>I hate to be the bearer of bad news...but DS DID request that he be removed from some mailing lists (when he was a college sophomore). He still gets mail from those places. Ditto the deceased parent info. My mom (died almost four years ago) just got her annual renewal for AARP. I wrote Deceased on the renewal and stuck it in the postage paid envelope. I hope that does the trick...although her cable company (doesn't even provide service in this area) keeps calling and sending us reminders to "come back". Oh well...</p>
<p>thumper, AARP will NEVER take deceased people off their list. The organization will appear to be less influential. In fact, I was sent a membership card when I was 18! </p>
<p>Some mailing lists are ancient & never updated. Businesses who don't buy new lists are completely unaware of the && wasted on printing & mailing costs. One brother lived in my parents' house for 20 years after my dad died & he still got dad's mail. Perhaps the new owners are dealing with it still......</p>
<p>Any truth to the rumor that Wash U will start sending promotional material to random people to drive their application numbers up even further?</p>
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<p>I think the next stage is going to be to start sending mail to preschoolers....</p>
<p>We still get mail for the people who owned this house before my parents. It's only been 25 years!</p>
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<p>We're getting the same onslaught from Duke, Hofstra, NYU, Allegheny, and Grinnell and, especially Elmira College(How's that for an eclectic group? ;) ). It's irritating, not only because of the excess mail, but (in the case of Duke)knowing perfectly well that my D wouldn't get in there and they're just bombarding us with this material in hopes of inflating their selectivity numbers.</p>
<p>OP here. I hadn't mentioned that a have a S graduating HS in 2010 and another D three years behind him graduating in 2013. :-O</p>
<p>Jeez, MaryTN, you're going to have more posts than I do if you stay on CC the until your last D is accepted. "College search and application...it's not an activity, it's a way of life."</p>
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<p>Lol, similar situation here(although our youngest will be in the class of '15, so we might get a brief hiatus). In fact, D2(our ninth grader) will be taking the PSAT's next fall, and has already begun receiving college mailings, herself.</p>