Ugh. My inbox is swamped with post-PSAT college emails.

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Personally, I find the mail helpful. It prods me to look up schools I never would have glanced at on my own.</p>

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<p>“You have just unsubscribed. You will receive an email to confirm your request.”</p>

<p><em>twitching</em></p>

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<p>I just got an email from Swarthmore College…</p>

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<p>Swat was the one college whose mail I really noticed. The envelope was pretty, and my grandmother told me it was a good school, and then they visited my school, and then paid for me to go visit them, and then I said, “Hey, I like you.”</p>

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<p>Are they really that meaningless? Cause I got one from Northwestern and I might really want to go there…</p>

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<p>Now that I’m narrowing down majors, I prefer emails to snail mail. It makes me uncomfortable to think that some nameless volunteer at a non-engineering school put together a package especially for someone that could not consider them. Not to mention the environmental impact made by the transportation of my futile college mail.
I digress. If you want to keep your current email address as well as your fun college emails, set up a filter through your email so that anything that’s conceivably from a university or college is forwarded to a folder.</p>

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<p>About as meaningful as the banner ads on this website.</p>

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<p>^Adblock ftw.</p>

<p>Once college apps are over, it will go away. Rip your name off each envelope (and this does start to hurt your fingers after a while :() and shred the names, then chuck out the envelopes, unless you want to apply to them. [/id theft paranoia]</p>

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<p>Eh, I continued to get some stuff into the fall.</p>

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<p>^Great. I’ve noticed about a 10^5 fold decrease in emails since Jan. 1. But I do still get stuff.</p>

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<p>There was some Christian school that sent me a letter/postcard/something in the mail literally every single day. I was so mad (I’m a tree hugger). </p>

<p>I asked them to stop repeatedly. They did not. I finally sent back one of their postcards to them saying “I am a liberal, hippie Wiccan. I do not want to attend your school in any way shape or form. Now would you stop killing Mother Earth to convince me to go to the hell-hole that is your school? I have asked you nicely numerous times to stop and you have not. This is your final warning before I go preform Wiccan ceremonies in front of your school on open house days.”</p>

<p>Would I have done it? Absolutely not. But I never received another letter from them :D</p>

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<p>That just made my day :smiley: I will be laughing over dinner now.</p>

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<p>Why you should keep these promotional mails:</p>

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<li><p>Those emails/pamphlets/booklets can come in handy when you have to write the typical “why you would LOVE to come to our school” admission essays for some schools that you’re not familiar with: just flip through the old mail and find some random fact to mention - you never know, maybe the person reading it will be really impressed.</p></li>
<li><p>You end up falling in love with a school through its promotional info booklet. It happened to me.</p></li>
<li><p>You can be creative and make wonderful holiday cards out of these college postcards.</p></li>
<li><p>You sometimes do get very nicely phrased letters from dream schools that you DO want to attend - in that case, it’s always good to keep the mail, even if it’s meaningless.</p></li>
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<p>My brother got a letter from some random school and obviously didn’t respond. About a month later he got another surprisingly strongly worded letter asking him why he had failed to respond. </p>

<p>It was also funny on the rare occasions he and I got the same letter from the same school on the same day.</p>

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<p>the letters make me feel loved.
And they all start with
nilly, we are impressed with your performance
does it mean they know me?</p>

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<p>to those who aren’t seniors: wait till you get the junk in your home (addressed) mail. I was spammed by NYU to the extent I called them to stop.</p>

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<p>I actually got a brochure for a women’s only college. And I definitely bubbled “male” on the test.</p>

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<p>Oh no…I’m a sophomore right now. Two more years of this?</p>

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<p>I just got my first PSAT “snail mail” today - Champlain College haha. I’m a Jr, I thought I checked “yes” when I took it last year. W/e.</p>

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<p>I’ve gotten two letters so far and dozens of emails. Some are really interesting, but others seem like they’re from a template haha. I agree that it does make me feel loved though. :)</p>