Replying to College Mail?

Hey CC! I haven’t been around here in a long time!

I have a quick question: Do I need to respond to all this college email/mail? Will they think I’m not intrested and hold it against me if I don’? I’ve heard they can tell if you open the email or click on the links. (which is actually pretty weird…) Thanks!

I think if you tried to respond to every email and piece of snail mail they sent you, you wouldn’t have time to do anything else. Trying it might make for a very entertaining college essay, though…

I’d only reply to the colleges that offer things that genuinely sound useful/interesting. Colleges know that you get tons of mail, and that’s pretty much why they keep sending you stuff, because they know that if they only send one, it’ll likely get lost in the flood of mail. There’s no need to respond to any of it, unless you’re really interested in the school.