<p>Have you ever looked through the colorful brochures schools sent you and after reading decided you wouldn't apply there? List them here and why.</p>
<p>Mills College…just because they send me so much stuff I’m annoyed at them.</p>
<p>Same reason as raelah for WUSTL</p>
<p>I was going to name a school for the original post but I thought it was kind of mean… I saw way too many students with dyed hair, piercings, and tattoos in their brochure and it seemed way too alternative for me.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>My son never considered applying to this school…but…</p>
<p>Mississippi University for Women has been co-ed for a while, but my son was rather annoyed when they sent him brochures. (I’ve heard that they’ve finally decided to rename the school.)</p>
<p>They would have your first name printed largely on the brochure…another annoyance.</p>
<p>I refuse to apply to any school that sends me a brochure via mail. Schools appear desperate when they do that.</p>
<p>You’re right, schools are so desperate because they market, and want more kids to apply.</p>
<p>WUSTL. Too many.</p>
<p>I know people who received lots of mail from UPenn, Columbia, UChicago, etc. I don’t think those schools are desperate, and I think it would be rather absurd to dismiss them just because they are trying to get their name out there and encourage students to check them out.</p>
<p>^ I agree. Since signing up for Chicago’s mailing list, I have recieved tons of information and emails. It’s actually encouraged me to apply this year, because it showed they care about their university enough to advertise and market it to potential applicants.</p>
<p>I was checking up on Rice cause I thought it would be cool to go to school in Texas, but the people in the brochures werre eay too nerdy looking and made the school look way too dull.</p>
<p>Iowa had the opposite effect on me. Thought it would be dull cause it was in, well, Iowa, but now I have applied and would be stoked to go there.</p>
<p>WUSTL. Too many and too ugly.</p>
<p>I have many far more legitimate reasons for losing interest, but the mail is obnoxious.</p>
<p>Uggh, what was that one… Bennington College. I wrote a huge rant on Facebook about it. Guess I’ll copy/paste here:</p>
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First impression: Hmm, liberal arts place. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation on the cover, with the tagline “Every object in the university attracts every other object.” Ok, sort of cheesy, but it’ll do, and implies they “like” physics.</p>
<p>Inside:
Oh, Bob Dylan went there. They have a copy of one of his song lyrics, first published in the school’s literary magazine, as the only piece of information… nothing about courses offered, “who are we,” nothing. Hmm.</p>
<p>“…Come mothers and fathers through out the land
And don’t criticize what you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
And your old road’s rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand
In the times they are a-changing…”
And stuff like that.</p>
<p>Right… so this college promotes disrespect to parents who are slow and stupid (hey, not all “free thinkers” grew up jaded and abused, with alcoholic druggie parents… I actually love my parents, thank you very much), pure individualism without regard for others, change for change’s sake with no regard for consequences, disrespect for authority simply because it’s authority,…</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and this is coming from a college that says
“What does every student bring to Bennington College? Curiosity.”
Psh. Any curiosity we bring is probably going to be brainwashed away…</p>
<p><em>throws information booklet away</em>
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<p>Any schools that don’t have pictures of students with beekers rate high in my book.</p>
<p>^Beekers? What are beekers? You mean beakers?</p>
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<p>My son received brochures from nearly all the ivies. I don’t think any of them are desperate. It would be silly to cross schools off simply because they sent you one or two brochures. You might end up with none to apply to. :(</p>
<p>After I first took the PSAT, University of Miami began emailing me several times a day. Within the week, I had seven brochures. Most of my friends were similarly swamped. Beautiful or not, I was rather put off.</p>
<p>I HATE those brochures that put your first name on the front! So annoying! Especially since my real name isn’t the name I go by, I go by a nickname. So there are all these brochures addressing me by my full name and I’m just like…wow, FAIL at trying to personalize.</p>
<p>I can’t stand when the “letter” you get with the brochure has the most awfully fake signature. I don’t expect them to sign everything by hand, but it shouldn’t be THAT obvious that it was done by machine! I don’t know, that just really turns me off.</p>
<p>theviolinist–I agree with the signature thing! I almost applied to one school JUST because it was a real signature! No copy, nothing. I am quite sure I could detect forgeries by now with the amount of bad photocopying I’ve gotten with college mail!</p>
<p>And the ‘personalized’ name thing is just Creepy. Colleges: please stop!</p>
<p>I can’t think of any brochures that turned me away from applying specifically, but honestly, there haven’t been that many that make me WANT to apply because they’re all so similar. Pitzer’s was the coolest and only positively persuasive one.</p>