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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.
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<p>New College of Florida?</p>
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<p>Nope. I actually considered that school for a while but realized I didn’t want to go to Florida.</p>
<p>There have been some moronic threads on CC over the years, but this one takes the cake.</p>
<p>Correction: the responses take the cake. There have been 22 posts before mine. Please, you 22 posters, please let us all know where you’ll attend school in the fall of 2010. And let us all know where you applied, and were accepted, as well.</p>
<p>Your arrogance is extremely distasteful, and I think many of you will be surprised when you discover the outcome in the next few months.</p>
<p>How is this thread any more “arrogant”, to use your own word, than any other thread in which people discuss why they did or didn’t apply to a certain school? Brochures and viewbooks are ways for colleges to present themselves to potential applicants. I don’t see rejecting a college based on their brochure any more random than rejecting a college based on its name or tour guide.</p>
<p>^^Knock yourself out, teenager.</p>
<p>Not applying to a certain school because it doesn’t concentrate on your intended major, or it’s out in the boonies and you’re looking for an urban school, or it didn’t give you enough financial aid, or you want to major in music and it’s a technical school, this all makes sense.</p>
<p>But not applying because the photographs showed kids with beekers [sic] or because they called you “Charles” in the letter, and you go by “Chip”, is moronic and arrogant. Not applying because they sent you four brochures and you think that makes them “desperate”, that’s just … sorry, I can’t think of a more apt word beyond “arrogant”. Naive and immature apply as well.</p>
<p>And that’s what this thread and its responses is all about.</p>
<p>heyalb, you’re taking this way too seriously. Marketing has always tried to appeal to the fickleness in people.</p>
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<p>Your sanctimony is equally, if not more distasteful.</p>
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<p>Translation: Please apply to WUSTL!!!</p>
<p>Brochures have never turned me off from a school, the research does!</p>
<p>However, most brochures misspell my name so that’s a little irritating.</p>
<p>^ Why would your name be misspelled? Don’t they go by what you put as your name on the PSAT?</p>
<p>Oh, interestingguy has infiltrated another thread to bash WashU! What a surprise…</p>
<p>But seriously, for those of you complaining about schools sending you mail, I pose this question:
If you were an administrator at a top school that didn’t have great name recognition (i.e. you’re not Harvard, Yale, Princeton or a state school), how would you market yourself? How would you show students that you offer a quality product, and that just because they may not have heard of your college, doesn’t mean your college isn’t a fantastic place to spend four years? This is a legitimate way for schools like WashU and UChicago to increase interest in their school. They don’t have D1 sports, and they aren’t ivy league so they cannot ride on the cache coattails of HYP. But they want to attract top students, and rightfully so, because they have the objective resources to offer fantastic opportunities to these students. So what would you do?</p>
<p>I’m not disagreeing with your theory, but I’m not sure if I’d agree that UChicago and WUSTL are schools that have poor name recognition. They are very well known, especially to smart kids in the midwest.</p>
<p>However, my friends and I always joke about all the crap emails, letters, brochures, etc. we get from Chicago. One of my friends actually got this thing that was basically a large picture book from them. We sort of concluded that they do all their marketing just so they can get more kids to apply and then boast a lower acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Neither of us really have any proof, though.</p>
<p>I won’t name it. But one college sent my D a musical “ball”. Looked like a Crazy-8 ball (maybe it even was, I forget). But anytime you touched it, it started up again with what I assume was the school fight song. So…silly me for pulling out the tab to activate the batteries in the first place (my argument is that I didn’t know it was going to sing, or that I would be unable to deactivate it). So I put it in the trash, and it “sang” all the way to the curb. Imagine the surprise of the trash man. The sound quality was, of course, quite poor. Who knows if he thought there was a cat or a baby or something in that bag! Guess I could have smashed it with a hammer. Anyway…that was my D’s craziest so far. </p>
<p>There were also a couple of very poorly written letters, one supposedly from the Dean. Another was very negative, that turned us off. But I feel uncomfortable actually naming them.</p>
<p>What school sent a musical ball? I might apply there just because of the crazy randomness involved.
To me, the most obnoxious are Columbia (which I never really considered because I’m not a fan of NYC in general and my tour there was off-putting and pretentious) and SIU - Carbondale, mainly because I’ve received 54 emails from them.</p>
<p>lol, one of my schools sent me a really crappy quality t-shirt. It was white, oversized, and much thinner than even the average standard gildan t-shirt. Guys probably wouldn’t mind wearing a shirt like that, but girls would.</p>
<p>Oberlin college sent me a truly embarrassing, hyperbole-ridden brochure that contained the phrase “walk through the fires of creative expression.” It made me wonder about the English department.</p>
<p>As WUStL is my first choice, I have always wished they would send hoardes of mail like they sent to everyone else. It wouldn’t make me not apply to a school, but I’m especially irked when I get two or more of the same brochure. I have a gigantic spiral-bound brochure from the University of Richmond, but I’ve already tossed two of them!</p>
<p>OK, fine, brewerfan…University of Kentucky. Whose blue color was similar to Columbia’s, by the way. My D highly considered Columbia. Her cousin is an alum for law school and we actually LOVE NYC with a passion. But, like you, she didn’t care for the presentation. Have no CLUE why. We went to Juilliard, NYU, and Columbia all one weekend. We didn’t even finish the Columbia tour…she said it just didn’t “feel” right. We saw the presentation and went to the first building on the tour…and then…just sidled off.</p>
<p>Now that applicannot mentioned it, I remember WUSTL sending me multiple copies of their viewbook. It didn’t bother me but it was kind of funny.</p>
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