<p>I like UChicago’s postcards. I also found the posters sent by CalTech and Duke to be rather nice.</p>
<p>Yale, Kenyon, Carleton, and Chicago all had great publications</p>
<p>Duke’s super high contrast photographs are pretty awesome.</p>
<p>Olin sent stuff in anti-static envelopes, which came handy when I was upgrading my computer.</p>
<p>I hung the Caltech poster in my room.</p>
<p>Carleton! I still have the calendar hanging up, and am now considering going there.</p>
<p>I also love everything I get from NYU.</p>
<p>Oberlin’s was amazing. they sent me everything from postcards, posters, and magazines :)</p>
<p>I thought Macalester’s postcards were awesome! Georgia Tech (where I’m going) had some pretty nice stuff, but their best propaganda is the amazing on-campus special events for prospective students.</p>
<p>I liked UChicago’s also.</p>
<p>Definitely Columbia University - I’ve loved their Blue Book since receiving it for the first time in 10th grade :D</p>
<p>It’s a small square, which is a much more visually pleasing shape than standard rectangular paper, blue all over, a lovely color, with white font, which reminds of the NYC sky when you look at it from the steps of Low Library. </p>
<p>And that phrase “underneath a ringing blue sky” I’ve plagiarized it in so many pieces of writing. Might just be my writer’s sensibilities kicking in, but that visual imagery is positively irresistable.</p>
<p>Not to be negative–but Dartmouth’s was probably the worst. All the fonts clashed, it was super-noisy and there was no cohesive theme to it at all–it was like different people designed each page and never consulted with each other!</p>
<p>I love UChicago’s. My sister would get them and not care, but I would stare at them. And now I get my very own!
I had never heard of Swarthmore before I started getting their stuff. I loved the color of their envelopes, their font, their little logo. It’s great.
MIT sent me a pretty sweet guide book. It’s a lot of fun.</p>
<p>UChicago’s book was quite nice.</p>
<p>I also liked Colgates</p>
<p>Viewbooks from art and design colleges take the cake. If you can get your hands on one of these you should save it for use as a coffee table book. They tend to be long, colorful, interesting and creative. They blow the pants off of any other school propaganda publications that I have ever seen.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone who mentioned UChicago - their postcards were always intriguing (the scavenger hunt one always looked like it would actually be a fun thing to do, too).</p>
<p>Carleton also sends great things, very nicely laid-out and entertaining - although I signed up for info on Carleton. I love the Carleton apple, though, and it was simple enough that I could read it without being distracted.</p>
<p>Kenyon had some good ones - I actually kept the random reading list they sent me because it was interesting and pretty different than anything else I’ve gotten.</p>
<p>As an undergrad applicant, I was impressed by Harvey Mudd’s materials.</p>
<p>When it came to law schools, NYU was in a class by itself. I still have the admit packet from NYU, which came in a BOX.</p>
<p>Judy Zodda (an independent college counselor based in Framingham, MA) told me that she gives high marks in this department to Lawrence University (Appleton, WI). “When I got their printed publication, it conveyed everything about them that I learned from a visit there and how different they are from many other colleges I visit,” Judy wrote me. </p>
<p>I think Judy raises a good point about college publications in general. That is, sometimes the publication itself can be very attractive and interesting, but it doesn’t necessarily provide the straight scoop on the school in question. I haven’t seen the Lawrence material that Judy mentioned, but it sounds like it’s not only a nice publication but also a helpful and accurate one.</p>