TOO MUCH MAIL rant.

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Okay, call me a complainer but... is anyone else besides me receiving a LOT of mail and pamphlets from colleges and universities and summer programs? </p>

<p>Some of these schools are sending me things that don't even offer a Pre-Medical program (which the College Board does give out this information)..do they really think I'm going to change my plans?</p>

<p>I'm starting to regret checking that little box "Check here if you would like to receive mailings and emails from future colleges and universities." </p>

<p>And this is just sophomore year.</p>

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<p>OMG!! Yes I know!!! I am like “It was cool at first but now it is getting SUPER ANNOYING!”</p>

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<p>Here’s a real rant:</p>

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<p>You get the idea. Probably about 100 different colleges spamming my E-Mail with multiple invitations to apply.</p>

<p>The good:</p>

<p>None of them. They all sucked. As recruiters, aren’t you supposed to entice prospective applicants rather than **** them off? The unmitigated pretentiousness so readily displayed by every single college who E-Mailed me wants to make me throw up. Want me to take one of your online surveys? What, you think I have NOTHING better to do than to take some idiotic test which is not indicative of anything? Do you really think I find you THAT important? Would I like a brochure? Screw you, don’t you patronize me. You’re not some vacation destination, jerks. Don’t pretend you’re that amazing.</p>

<p>What do I want? I want money. That, or a free T-Shirt. Not a brochure. My god.</p>

<p>“I’ve shown to be an impressive student?” By whose standards? Yours? Oh wow, you definitely just made my day. No, I had absolutely no idea I was impressive before your E-Mail. Screw you. You don’t tell me I’m impressive. I already know I’m impressive, you morons. You know what’s not impressive? Your recruiting skills. You don’t tell someone so obviously impressive as me that he’s impressive. What. The. Hell. Patronizing idiots.</p>

<p>“Take a closer look?” You think I’m going to suddenly care about your University because of an E-Mail? Are you implying that I’m that big of a mindless drone? “Oh, I got an E-Mail from this university, so I automatically like them!” No, if I wasn’t already interested, then I’m not going to be. “You want me?”</p>

<p>Oh, wow. I’m special huh? I’m “wanted.” How very attractive. Wow. You don’t know me. You want me over a number. How incredibly shallow. That, and that I’m “wanted” by your University is readily evident by the fact that you’re attempting to recruit me. </p>

<p>But as bad as most of these were, there is a special place in the depths of hell for some of these recruitment offices:</p>

<p>5) Tie between Columbia University, Brown University, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth College</p>

<p>Nothing in the content of these E-mails particularly stood out from the rest. They were pretty generic overall; they bragged about themselves, talked about how I had potential, etc.</p>

<p>Rather, it was the selectivity of these schools that made my blood boil. Really, CBCNPD? You turn down tens of thousands of applicants each year. People practically kill themselves for a shot at your universities. Each year, teenagers cry in their rooms because you rejected them. Anyone with even an iota of knowledge about college admissions knows the prestige of your schools.</p>

<p>And yet you feel the need to lower your acceptance rates even further and disappoint even more people. I know it’s not just me you’re sending these E-mails to. Have you no shame or sense of compassion? How dare you falsely inject hope into so many young people, and then crush that very same hope which you engendered just the next year? What the hell is wrong with you? Most of the kids getting these E-Mails, potentially including me, will most likely NOT GET IN to any of you. And yet you delude us into thinking that we have a good shot.</p>

<p>Hogs to the slaughter. Absolutely repulsive how these elite universities conduct their recruiting.</p>

<p>Hey CCBNPD,</p>

<p>Can you at least guarantee me a spot if you’re going to E-Mail me? Especially Columbia. 8.7% just isn’t low enough for them. That’s seriously almost inhuman. E-Mailing people just so they can increase their amount of rejected applicants.</p>

<p>That is the moral equivalent of me applying to UC Riverside as a joke.</p>

<p>4) Bennington College</p>

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<p>“We’re #6!” “We’re #6!”</p>

<p>Okay, if you’re going to say you’re #6, then it might not be a good idea to include the 5 colleges ahead of you, especially when at least one of those colleges is actively trying to recruit me. Why would I go to the #6 when I could go to the #5?</p>

<p>Next is the whole graduate schools Bennington grads attended part. So, Bennington is essentially using the prestige of other universities in order to recruit. By attending Bennington, I’ll be able to get to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cal, or NYU (Why even list NYU…).</p>

<p>Aside from the pure logical fallacy of this “associative prestige,” again, why would I go to Bennington if it’s merely a stepping stone to a real college? Really, Bennington? You think I’m not capable of getting to one of those schools in the first place? 3 of them are actively recruiting me!</p>

<p>Bennington College: “We can get you into a top school!”</p>

<p>Umm, yeah, no thanks. I think I’ll just go to a top school to begin with.</p>

<p>And the “non-traditional colleges” segment is just the icing on the cake. Most of it was cutoff in the screenshot, but it basically lists a bunch of colleges that I’ve never heard of sans Wesleyan and Brown. “Evergreen state college?” What the hell? These sound like the type of colleges that someone would attend after being rejected from Cal State Dominguez Hills.</p>

<p>“Non-traditional?” I interpret that as “weird.”</p>

<p>3) Tie between Texas Christian University and Southern Methodist University </p>

<p>Didn’t feel the need to include a screenshot.</p>

<p>These two are here mainly because they don’t even attempt to hide their religious affiliations. I have clearly specified that I have no religion on every standardized test which I’ve taken. So, of course, as an atheist, I would LOVE to attend denominational institutes, right? WONDERFUL logic. How about you limit your recruitment to Christians and Methodists?</p>

<p>I’m serious, TCU. If you admit me, I will burn down your chapel. ^_^</p>

<p>They’re also both in Texas. If you’re in Texas and not named Rice, heck, even if you ARE named Rice, you’d better have some really good financial compensation or something of the sort to make up for it. Who the hell wants to live in Texas? Oh man… Governor Rick Perry is easily the dumbest Governor in all of the U.S. He’s almost Palin-esque.</p>

<p>TCU’s stood out because they offered to send along a “college comparison chart.” TCU isn’t an impressive school. This chart is either rigged or will show how completely pathetic they are. It will probably lead me to pick a school NOT named TCU. What purpose does this serve?</p>

<p>@SMU:</p>

<p>“You’ve worked hard to get where you are today.”</p>

<p>Umm, no, not really. That’s awfully presumptive on your part.</p>

<p>That, and Laura Bush went to SMU. Am I going to learn how to run people over with my car and then get away with it?</p>

<h1>2: DePaul University</h1>

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<p>“Learn from the best.”</p>

<p>No, I’m pretty sure the best are all at top schools.</p>

<p>“Personalize your major.”</p>

<p>Yeah, I’m pretty sure you can do that anywhere.</p>

<p>“Make Chicago your classroom.”</p>

<p>Oh, HELL NO. “Ethnic neighborhoods?”</p>

<p>So not only is DePaul too poor to afford actual classrooms, but they apparently encourage their students to get shot in Chicago’s South Side. Who wants to go into ANY ethnic neighborhood, especially in Chicago?</p>

<p>And the whole “*standard texting rates apply” part was just insulting. Yeah, I’m going to pay money for a text just so you can spam my phone with more of your bragging.</p>

<p>1) Miami University </p>

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<p>Okay, first off, there is both a Miami University and a University of Miami. And they each E-mailed three times. You can imagine how confusing that might be.</p>

<p>Next, Miami University flat out lies when they say they are in the top three. Now that’s just arrogant. The rankings clearly show the top three as being: Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.</p>

<p>I don’t know what kind of obscure statistic Miami University is using, but they are clearly misguided. </p>

<p>“As the only public school in the top 3, Miami offers you more value for your investment.”
Yeah, if I were a FLORIDA resident. Unfortunately for me, I live in California and am thus not entitled to in-state tuition. You know what offers me more value for my investment? A UC school.</p>

<p>And then they actually took the time to create a webpage with my name in it, as if that actually means ANYTHING to me. Regardless, intrigued, I clicked the link and got this message:</p>

<p>Your URL[[url=&lt;a href=“http://michaelsun.gomiamiohio.com/]]LWC[/url”&gt;http://michaelsun.gomiamiohio.com/]]LWC[/url</a>] is invalid.</p>

<p>Now that just takes the cake.</p>

<p>Miami University, this year’s WORST COLLEGE RECRUITERS IN THE WORLD.</p>

<p>Honorable mention to Arizona State University, Sarah Lawrence College, Kettering University, and the like:</p>

<p>You sent me an E-Mail because you think that I’m a top student. I mean, really, you need to realize that I have some semblance of dignity. I never even heard of you until you sent those E-mails… Sorry to say it, but…</p>

<p>Get real. I have better places to apply to.</p>

<p>/RANT</p>

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<p>@Saugus</p>

<p>Beautifully done. Props.</p>

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<p>All of that ignorance made my eyes bleed. I don’t even feel like arguing.</p>

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<p>Miami is obnoxious. Sent me an application. My sophomore year of high school. I also dislike that one NY Uni that sends postcard-type mail every other day. </p>

<p>The worst college mail I’ve gotten was this GIANT package, came in an almost-box. They didn’t even just take a big envelope and try to shove it in a mailbox, it was amazing. $4.00 shipping FedEx. I had to sign for it, and I was so proud, excited to show off my potential scholarship notification/some prestigious award/acceptance into programs I applied to. You can’t imagine what was going through my mind. </p>

<p>I open it, holding my breath, and literally told my mother to keep the camera nearby so she could have a video of me bursting into tearful joy after I read whatever amazing news it would be to find…</p>

<p>a GWU viewbook. Seriously?</p>

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<p>^
Miami University is actually in Ohio… What the…?</p>

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<p>^
Miami University is actually in Ohio… What the…?</p>

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<p>RPI sends me an email to visit them EVERYDAY!</p>

<p>its the only one of my 9 schools that actually email me tho. i guess its making up for the other schools?</p>

<p>EDIT: miami univ has several sites</p>

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<p>^I was referring to Florida one, but there’s that.
I got mail from St. John’s NM/MD and would be confused when people played sports for St. John’s. Apparently there’s one in NY. Go figure.</p>

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<p>The worst ones are the entirely impersonal “streamlined applications” – no fee! no essay! deadlines constantly pushed back!</p>

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<p>Yeah I’m just a sophomore and I got like 40+ mails and 200+ e-mails. :X</p>

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<p>This is why I’ve never put my email address on anything even remotely college related. Because I am smart enough to read the US News and World Report rankings and decide for myself where to go, sigh.</p>

<p>Silly recruiters; I actually was asked to talk to one from the University of Kansas (Kansas!) today about their engineering program. Well, I’m not going to college in Kansas, I’m not looking for something outside of the top 25, and I’m not even going to consider KU unless I desperately need their scholarships (for which I am overqualified) and want to learn in a brand-new engineering facility.</p>

<p>I’ve given my address to Dartmouth, I think. That’s it. And they sent me one little packet. The KU lady cared enough to give me a pen, hah.</p>

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<p>Calvin— i’m a junior, oh it gets WORSE…</p>

<p>i’ve been barraged since i took the SATs in 7th grade</p>

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<p>Did anyone else get little to no mail from schools that they were actually interested in? When I was a Junior/Senior, I was set on Purdue, (Boiler up!) I got 5 brochures from Hanover (all the same), a Magic 8 Ball with University of Kentucky fight song when shaken, TONS of stuff from Tulane, a couple letters from Ball State, quite a few letters from Drezel, Emory, and a bunch of Christian schools, despite not having any religious affiliation.</p>

<p>To be honest, I am fine with schools sending one or two brochures to prospective students, but more than that, and I feel that they are wasting money that should be used for scholarships or useful campus projects.</p>

<p>E-mail on the other hand is quite frankly annoying, I eventually set my spam filter to stop receiving mail from .edu addresses with the exception of the schools I applied to.</p>

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<p>mongoose-- i never get emails from my 9 schools.</p>

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<p>CPU, and I was totally tricked into receiving these mails! Our school made all of the sophomores take a mandatory PSAT exam. And those bastards tricked us into signing this card with our e-mail address on it telling us that’s the only way they’re going to be able to send us our scores.</p>

<p>Well, when the results came it, we actually had to go to the school at 9PM and physically pick it up. It was ridiculous. And I was fortunate enough to have the highest score in my grade of 211 (REALLY fortunate, I’m not that smart). So now I’m being bombarded with dumb e-mails and it’s really getting on my nerves, not because of the redundancy, but because I was tricked. >:I</p>

<p>But I actually did get another financial offer from the University of Hawaii, ■■■■■.</p>

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<p>CCism at its finest.</p>

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<p>bahahahaha! id love to study in hawaii.</p>

<p>i wonder if the letters and emails will stop sometime this dec/jan when im done applying…</p>

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<p>I’m getting some, not a lot.
I’ve received about 5 so far.
And they’re all offering me ‘communications studies’ which isn’t what I wanted</p>