<p>(I wasn't sure which forum this should be posted in so I apologize in advance if this shouldn't be posted here, but I thought this forum fit my topic the best)</p>
<p>Hi,
So I've been getting a lot of mail and emails from colleges lately (from the College Board Student Search Service and the ACT's version of that), and I read most of them at first, but I quickly got bored of reading so many of them. So I just wanted to ask if it's worth my time during this summer to go through them (like do some of any provide useful info?), or should I not bother to take the time to read them (since a lot / all of them seem to be ads...)?
Thanks!</p>
<p>After I took my PLAN and ACT I started getting a ton of those too. I really haven’t paid much attention to them; they’re basically sent out to every student who fits into a bracket of scores and interest inventories. They pretty much are just spam emails, it isn’t worth your time to reach through them unless you have a serious interest in one of those colleges.</p>
<p>I get a ton of them too. I usually give them a brief glance when I first get them, but they generally end up in my recycling bin right away. Unless it’s a school I’m interested in, I don’t waste my time. They get sent out to thousands of students who meet the bare minimum criteria. They aren’t “recruitment” letters. They’re basically just spam. </p>
<p>Occasionally some are worth pursuing. I’ve been contacted via email by a recruitment officer at the University of Pennsylvania, and I’m not seriously considering it. But Penn is an Ivy, so it’s worth a bit more of a look than the flood of other school emails. This one was actually personalized. They knew that I was a community college student majoring in physics, and they expanded on that interest by specifically mentioning some aspects of their physics curriculum and active physics research going on there. </p>
<p>So, in general those letters aren’t really worth looking at. But that’s not universally true. </p>
<p>You’re gonna get a ton of email and snail mail during the college process. Most of it will be uninteresting. However, I suggest creating a folder to store all the emails in and having an actual folder or bag to store the snail mail in. You may not find any of it relevant at first, and 95% of it won’t be. But if you later decide to look into a school you weren’t previously thinking about, it will be good to be able to go back and see if they’ve sent you anything and what it said. Also, at the end of the whole process, it was pretty cool to be able to look at the stack of hundreds of letters I had received.</p>