So, what's in your "dream college letters" collection?

Applying to College
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<p>You know the drill. When you see a letter from something like Gikunolalalabli Community College, you throw it in the recycling bin without a second glance. But as soon as you see that cherished logo of a top school, brought to life on the paper of an envelope, you open it meticulously and store it in your sacred pile of "dream college letters."</p>

<p>I'm actually considering putting them in a UV proof vaccuum. So far, I have:</p>

<p>Cornell
MIT
Yale
Caltech
Dartmouth
Columbia
UPenn</p>

<p>What's in your collection?</p>

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<p>Darthmouth = Dartmouth
Colombia = Columbia</p>

<p>just need to put that out there</p>

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<p>^haha.</p>

<p>I don't really become attached to those letters...?
I kind of like my handsigned Colgate letters though ;).</p>

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<p>Darthmouth and Colombia, man I lol'ed there.</p>

<p>Anywho, I guess my "dream" mail has been from UChicago or Stanford. I mostly get mail from random places though.</p>

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<p>haha I idontcare. What was I thinking? I feel slightly unworthy of my treasured collection now.</p>

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<p>Wait- do you mean acceptance letters or those dang fliers that they send to everyone?</p>

<p>Cause the "dream" mail in each category is far different for me...</p>

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<p>I have a list of 12 schools that i may apply to so I save stuff from those schools and toss the rest. Not really my "dream school" pile, but I don't even have enough money to tour yale or harvard =P</p>

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<p>I "collected" all the Ivies, plus Stanford, Chicago, MIT, and Caltech. None of them are schools I'd want to attend, but I guess the letters were nice head-nods...</p>

<p>I'm saving all the unsolicited mail I get from colleges. I'm going to weigh it once I finish senior year and figure out how much paper they wasted.</p>

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<p>Johnson181, I guess "those dang fliers that they send to everyone"</p>

<p>But in my book, they'd have to be called "those sacred texts that they grant to students."</p>

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<p>lol- I collect WashU pretty much then. My other top school only sends emails.</p>

<p>And I keep lettters/ booklets from the schools I'm applying to, and toss the rest (USC needs to give it a rest already...).</p>

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<p>I keep getting mail from horrible colleges...I saved my mail from the good ones though(hypsm) :-)</p>

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<p>the only ones I have saved are Columbia and Yale because I actually read those viewbooks</p>

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<p>jets91, you got all of hypsm? That's pretty impressive.</p>

<p>I love it when you get the big booklets. Dartmouth actually spent $1.78 just to mail it to me. I feel so important.</p>

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<p>haha yeah, i'm so happy :-)...i really don't know how they choose who to mail the letters/booklets to.</p>

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<p>you shouldn't.</p>

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<p>Harvard spent about 5 bucks to send me an athletic packet, I was SHOCKED! 5 bucks times how many prospectives? That's quite a bit of money</p>

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<p>Don't lose sleep over it. Hah-vahds endowment is larger than the GDP of many small countries, a couple hundred 5 dollar hits wont dent them!</p>

<p>Back on topic...</p>

<p>I save mail from University of Chicago religiously- every scrap of paper I get from them is meticulously filed away. Whats even better is I don't just do that because I worship them (I do...) but rather because I find the stuff they send very funny usually!</p>

<p>Other than that I save mail from most top25 schools for kicks and giggles and any viewbook/ prospectus that interests me.</p>

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<p>I never got mail from my dream college, probably because it's public and has far too many applicants already. Instead, I get spammed by colleges I have no interest in, such as WUStL, U Miami, Rochester, St. Mary's, and a bunch of others I've never even heard of (Ozarks, Redlands, la Verne, etc.).</p>

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<p>WUStL just sent me a 400 page book about them... </p>

<p>Talk about money.</p>

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<p>I find UChicago's mail to be annoying.
I just got an 'uncommon application' yesterday.
Uncommon? Come on, I'm not going to re-do all my essays just for you chicago.</p>