<p>I got my first e-mail from a college today. From the University of Rochester. Which seems nice. I might check it out. Any other juniors starting to get stuff?</p>
<p>I got my first college letter, from the University of Rochester... I'm a sophomore.... I'm sure we'll both get tired of it soon, but it makes me feel important. :)</p>
<p>Don't think about college till junior year.</p>
<p>Just focus on getting high grades in tough courses, showing consistency and passion in your extracurriculars, and, if you are doing horribly on the PPSAT or PLAN or hatever, do some test prep.</p>
<p>"Don't think about college till junior year."</p>
<p>Thats not very good advice. It's good to think of colleges earlier, so you know what you need to do. I wish I had known to take APs in junior year...</p>
<p>HAHAHHAHAHHA</p>
<p>...yea, by the time you're a senior it's not so exciting to get ****loads of college mail.</p>
<p>I started to receive mail (snail and electronic) after taking the PSAT my freshman year...to this day (junior) I receive at least one college item in the snail mail a day...it is SUCH a waste because less than 1% is of interest to me. It is nice to see all the different ways they advertise, but many are the same exact thing, they just change the name pretty much.</p>
<p>you will get soo tired of this, esp the phone calls and emails. I had to make a new email bc my old one was cluttered w/ college emails. Good luck guys!!</p>
<p>Putting your real email on the psat is always a mistake.</p>
<p>Kettering College in Michigan called me FIFTEEN times this summer, each time I told them I wasn't interested and to take me off there list... I finally sent an angry email to the admissions office and told them I had 0 interest in them and to leave me alone. It was so obnoxious....</p>
<p>Ha. First you're excited. Then you'll be slightly irritated. Finally, you'll wish the colleges didn't have your email/address in the first place.</p>
<p>Okay yeah. I got like 7 e-mails today.</p>
<p>It's less special than it was.</p>
<p>Just wait until you get a postcard/letter per day MINIMUM.</p>
<p>I've recieved mail from a few colleges, although a main university I got mail from was University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.</p>
<p>Last year ( before the year was over with ) I remember signing up to New York University mailing list ( interested in getting mail from schools) and recieved nothing... though it said I should recieve something shortly. So I'm having second thoughts about NYU on a list of mines now.</p>
<p>Though this isn't the first time such happen, a year ago... or around the past summer I signed up for Michigan State University mailing list. I did recieve mail once ( more like the type you can hang on a door knob, but no whole for door knob), and that was it.</p>
<p>With those experiencing I'm not expecting to get anything from these schools anymore unless I were to have an ACT of 30+ ( more likely that's what it would take).</p>
<p>haha seriously.... i have an entire dresser drawer dedicated to all the college mail i've received. by the time senior year rolls around, this stuff doesn't even matter.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think I'll start signing up for other schools mailing list and see which ones actually send me mail.</p>
<p>Surprisenly I didn't even have to sign up for University of Minnesota- Twin Cities mailing list... though it's been told that other students at my school got random mail from UM- Twin Cities as well ( and I was surprise the student was recieving college mail).</p>
<p>Just to let you know, The "Unsubscribe" function at the end of college emails don't really work.</p>
<p>I'm getting all sorts of stuff because I put my name down for the PSAT. Its kind of annoying, most of them I would never consider
One school said I automatically qualified for a pretty substantial scholarship. I didn't even know they were allowed to do that</p>
<p>Yeah I know some students who went to a private college because they offered to pay for their tuition, and if not that dorming, books, and meal plan.</p>
<p>Haha, early fall of senior year was the worst for me. Piles and piles and piles of mail. Never got any phone calls though...</p>
<p>Create a separate college college email for the stuff that matters, because it'll be annoying to sort through all the random college emails for stuff like applications for schools you've actually applied to. Something like <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@gmail.com">firstname.lastname@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>The sad thing is like I got a letter and several e-mails from The University of Rochester. I'm in there 50-75 range for CR, but I'm nowhere close to high enough in anything else. I guess they expect me to improve a lot between sophomore and junior/senior year.</p>