<p>…has great materials, very sophisticated.</p>
<p>Rochester sent me a viewbook in a hilarious envelope. I didn’t even open it because I found the envelope so funny! It is covered in illustrations giving instructions like, “Do not eat this viewbook” and “Do not kill vampires with this viewbook.” Ordinarily, I wouldn’t think that it was supremely funny, but, in the world of mostly boring viewbooks, I found the creativity to be great.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. sure they have detailed analyses and pictures and fat number of pages, etc., but nothing really trumps UChicago.</p>
<p>I like Yale’s because it’s classy but fun at the same time. Princeton and Stanford have gorgeous viewbooks as well. Northwestern’s scores big points in my book, especially with the beautiful purple… </p>
<p>Harvard’s viewbook is sort of disappointing this year. The orange, violet, and green totally clash with the red, and all the passages are long and boring. The font is nothing special, and some parts of the quotes are underlined, like they’re trying to force a point. Guidebooks in the past have been amazing though.</p>
<p>Chicago is great, as others have said. They sent me everything from a viewbook to postcards to a coursebook.</p>
<p>Chicago never sent me anything :(</p>
<p>But I almost applied to Bowdoin just because of one thing they sent me. I don’t remember it much, though, becuase it was many months ago. It was black.</p>
<p>Xth’d for Chicago.</p>
<p>One of the first props I received in the college admissions process.
I was genuinely impressed.</p>
<p>The UChicago postcard series was great! I wasn’t considering the school before, but it’s on the radar screen now. Why wouldn’t you want to apply somewhere that sends you a picture to color and send back in? I also enjoyed the “essay” questions.</p>
<p>Olin’s were definitely best (duct tape anyone?)</p>
<p>Swarthmore and Kenyon stand out in my mind; I make a point of reading ALL college mail, so I’ve seen a lot. The UChicago postcards make me raise an eyebrow and toss in the trash, but hey, now I know I’m not their type.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd & Rose Hulman for mailings that appeal to their geeky target audience.</p>
<p>My favorite (and how it seems with everybody else) was UChicago. However, the school that put me on it’s radar that I’d never thought of was Willamette (it’s in Oregon). The first thing I got from them was a pamphlet talking about how oxygen is good for the brain, and how all the trees out there in Oregon make a lot of oxygen, thus proving that they’re a good place to learn.</p>
<p>I also ended up applying, but it was because they gave me a priority app and waved the fee, so I figured why not. but still, it won Willamette another applicant.</p>
<p>for sheer nerdness, i appreciated caltech’s stuff that was printed on graph paper:) quarter inch, naturally!</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd’s stuff have always been great fun
Williams’ is good too</p>
<p>Chicago, yes yes yes, wonderful materials.
Only college mail I truly looked forward to, actually.</p>
<p>Brown only sends one thing if you request it specifically, so I am for lack of personal college mail (minus my viewbook, which was informative if not flashy).</p>
<p>All throughout my junior year, Carleton sent me AMAZING stuff. Really cool graphics, and a sweet calendar that I still use now even though I’m not applying.</p>
<p>I forgot about Caltech! I think my single favorite piece of mail from a college so far was “The Periodic Table of Caltech.” I think that’s what made me apply even though I had no desire to only because it’s on the other side of the country.</p>
<p>Wesleyan’s was really cool.</p>
<p>I loved Tuft’s collages - I was actually going to write about it in my “Why Tufts?”. Alas, how sad I was when I realized it was only 50 words :'(</p>
<p>Ohh, I love talking about viewbooks because they really do work their tricks on me.</p>
<p>My favorites are UChicago, Kenyon, Columbia, and NYU; I applied to all four schools :)</p>
<p>Duke = best graphics! The colors and pictures are really eye-catching.</p>