<p>here's what you do.
1. Run a whois check on domain name. That will give you the name of the registrant/owner : Dan Rosenfield</p>
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<li><p>Once you have the name, Google it. Lots & lots of entries, as the guy has posted and written articles all over the internet. The guy claims to be a former college dean and admissions director, but doesn't generally list the colleges he was associated with. I did some digging though and found a reference to his being the "Dean of Enrollment Management" at University of Louisiana at Lafeyette - a search of that web site - <a href="http://www.louisiana.edu/AboutUs/Search.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.louisiana.edu/AboutUs/Search.shtml</a> - easily turns up his name, phone, and *.edu email</p></li>
<li><p>Go back to the Whois record -its got a postal address in Louisiana and a phone number to go along with it. Also a fax number, but the fax is obviuosly fake. Try calling the phone number and see who answers. Now you have the guys home and business numbers -- pretty cool, eh?</p></li>
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<p>OK now I've got it all figured out. Rosenfield has a job working as an enrollment manager for a legit state university that you've never heard of, which means that it is his job to try to recruit students. At that end of the selectivity scale, the colleges have to work hard to find students -- I'm sure his university accepts all comers. </p>
<p>Rosenfield figures he can also moonight and make extra money by setting up his own internet business. The get-recruited web site is a nice, fast buck for him. He has put up a survey form so that people will give him information that he can package and sell to a colleges for their recruiting. "Recruiting" doesn't mean Harvard calls ... "recruiting" means that you start getting a ton of email from Podunk U. in Nowheresville. Since you are silly enough to fill out his form, you have also consented to receive all that spam email. Rosenfield probably sells his list to whoever will take it - and he charges less than College Board for the same info, so ..... if you go to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette site and get all excited, and think that's the school for you... then by all means, sign up for the mailing list, because I'm sure that Rosenfield knows all the enrollment managers at all his peer institutions, and face it: you are never going to find out about these schools from US News. I mean, if your kid's only got an 18 on the ACT math and a 2.6 GPA --well, then you need to know about Louisiana's fine institutions of higher learning.</p>