<p>I know there have probably been thousands of threads like this, but I just had to post it.</p>
<p>I just checked my mail and some college sent me a PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE! It got me thinking, there has to be some other unique college mail I haven't even heard about. So any special mailings you have received that just stood out?</p>
<p>Not anything “special” but I do appreciate the colleges that send me pretty books and stuff, most notably NYU and UChicago (actually American as well).</p>
<p>A prescription bottle? Was there like, something in it? Or what?</p>
<p>I remember my brother getting the prescription bottle. That still hasn’t been topped as the best college mail ever.</p>
<p>One school, I think it was Brandeis, sent me a packet of flashcards that had information about the college! It was so cool :)</p>
<p>Yesterday I received some big package from some college (I don’t even remember where it’s from), but it was a blown up beach ball telling me to come visit and how it has beautiful shores and stuff and it was just weird.</p>
<p>^ I’d wager somewhere on the shore? :)</p>
<p>My friend got a Chicago postcard that had stylized coffee stains on it. It said that he should go because of the coffee shops.</p>
<p>Reed sent a periodic table and a list of sites to reference for papers. No information about the college at all.</p>
<p>I got the coffee chicago one mentioned above as well as some flashcards from william and mary. Uchicago sends a lot of neat stuff like posters and this one gargoyle caption contest thing and since I live in illinois I get things from them like once a week.</p>
<p>what was the prescription bottle for? Was it to symbolize something or are getting recruited by a serious party school. “If you are thinking about joinining Party State U, here are complimentary drugs. If you get hooked enroll in PArty State U!”</p>
<p>I’ve gotten colleges this year telling me I NEED to apply because they believe I have such great potential. Yeah, no way in heck am I staying in-state or going to AL. They keep sending me emails telling me they’re looking for my application. Who the heck told them I’d apply? Lol. </p>
<p>But nothing too weird, just the obnoxious emails from colleges who think I want to go to Mobile AL, or Jacksonville.</p>
<p>The weirdest one I got was the Reed one mentioned above. And a UChicago one about their scavenger hunt thingie.
Does anyone else get a bunch of random UChicago postcards every so often about ECs there? I feel like they’re trying too hard.</p>
<p>I<code>m only a sophomore and get those ^. It</code>s kind of annoying.</p>
<p>I’m Jewish but get emails like everyday from American Catholic University or Texas Christian University. My name is Jewish for heavens sake!</p>
<p>American Catholic U? do you mean Catholic U of America?</p>
<p>sigh. I get no college mail. the PSAT i took yesterday was first standarized test ive taken in 8 years.</p>
<p>I got a really cool mailing from William & Mary that had all these interesting postcards with gorgeous campus photos and quirky bits of information on them. All printed on really nice, heavy stock paper in an old-fashioned envelope. Loved it, good thing I’m applying!</p>
<p>Kenyon College sends pretty interesting mail - a picture of Sigmund Freud wearing a Kenyon bandana thing, and another had The Starry Night by Van Gogh with the Kenyon campus in the background.</p>
<p>Trust me, you don’t want college mail. </p>
<p>U Chicago sent me a book about their school. And a 3x4 (at least) poster. That place hates trees.</p>
<p>For all those asking about the bottle. It was for the st louis college of pharmacy, which makes sense. All it had inside was a note saying “Because of your achievements and interest in heath care you have been picked as a priority applicant. Please contact blah blah to learn more.” Yeah it was pointless and dumb. They could have at least put more information about the college in there.</p>
<p>We should compare volumes. I keep all the mail, (700ish letters) so when I am accepted, I will invite CC to watch me burn my stack of paper and roast some New Zealand chocolate. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what I will do with the 800+ emails that I haven’t deleted…</p>