<p>...And it's still quite early on in the college application season. The viewbooks are still pouring in by the day ;)</p>
<p>The 30.3 pounds is excluding all envelopes and useless pieces of paper - letters, pamphlets, summer visit info, etc - I throw those all away. Basically I have 30.3 pounds of viewbooks. Hooray!</p>
<p>Just wanted to inform you all. I'll weigh my pile again in April and we'll see how bad it is by then. 50 pounds, maybe? 60? 70? Excitement!</p>
<p>What kind of SAT score makes colleges want you that badly?</p>
<p>I saved everything from the colleges I was interested in. It totaled over 55 pounds. That doesn't count the stuff from the school I actually decided to attend, because I didn't want to put that stuff in a trash bag. ;)</p>
<p>^ wow...I'm a rising junior and I have only 15 pounds. I took the SAT in march of sophomore year. Is that how they decide who to mail things to?</p>
<p>I think by the time Chicago stopped sending me stuff, I had a good 10 lbs. just of their recruitment material. It probably would've been more, but I decided to attend so that they would stop sending me more stuff.</p>
<p>and so many colleges claim to care about the environment... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>there was one college that actually paid about 2 dollars in postage to send me something. i don't even remember what it was.</p>
<p>WUSL keeps spamming me with stuff.</p>
<p>^ haha I have a special trash bag for things from WUSTL...</p>
<p>Yeah, some viewbooks are HUGE. Honestly. I think one school sent me something with $5.41 of postage. That's just ridiculous, honestly.</p>
<p>And yeah, I feel bad for the environment so I'm saving the paper to make cards and whatnot! I cut out letters from Columbia's to make my friend a birthday card because he wants to go there :D</p>
<p>^ roflllllllllllllll</p>
<p>I don't like throwing all that paper out either. Instead, I use the small postcards and brochures to wallpaper a side of my room. I've had to move on to the ceiling, and that's only stuff from Junior year. :P</p>
<p>one of my friends got sent a catalog of the school! and it was thick lol..</p>
<p>I don't know how heavy were mine, but basically I have a short list of colleges I'm planning to apply already. so I have been giving away the viewbooks from the colleges I'm not applying to a neighboring HS =D
takes up too much space</p>
<p>when I Take the PSAT again im not checking for college info...im tired of being spammed and I Know which universities are a fit for me already ^_^</p>
<p>I've been throwing away my stuff from every school other than the ones I'm applying to. Even then, I'm sure I have > 15 lbs.</p>
<p>Wow .. i feel so lame</p>
<p>I am going to be a junior ... and I have only gotten three things from colleges: viewbook from princeton and darmouth and a letter + viewbook from harvard</p>
<p>... will I get more things after the PSAT? :D</p>
<p>You've weighed all of it?<br>
I kept some in a box for a while, and when it was full I went through it and dumped the crap out.</p>
<p>I guess in the past year and a half or so I've gotten maybe 50 pounds worth? Some of those viewbooks are huge... But some colleges also like to send 183210 postcards that weigh more than any viewbook.</p>
<p>I got a letter from Yale and one from Columbia. This was fairly recently after the test scores from the PLAN came out (last year, sophomore), and I got 99th percentile in everything. I said, "Okay. Everyone like 90th percentile or above gets them, right?" But my parents said no, they're more special than that. Basically, I think they're more like spam/junk mail. I'm right, right?</p>
<p>Pretty much- if you don't want to be spammed for the next two years (and more), don't sign up for the mailing list.</p>
<p>Stanford pretty much sent me a book. When I saw it, I thought it must have cost them a ton of money to send this to that many kids.</p>