<p>I'm wondering if people who keep getting these posters and packets have a higher chance of getting accepted into the University. I've got others from Washington University in St Louis and Brown. Does it really matter? </p>
<p>Check this thread out: <a href=“Student to elite Colleges: Please stop recruiting students like me if you know we won’t get in - Applying to College - College Confidential Forums”>Student to elite Colleges: Please stop recruiting students like me if you know we won’t get in - Applying to College - College Confidential Forums; </p>
<p>Nope. If you checked the box on the SAT (or ACT? Not sure if they have one too), colleges can get your info. They will choose to send mailings to, for example, everyone who checked the box and got above a 1900. There will be much more mail to come - I found out about one college through mailings and ultimately decided not to apply after visiting. I would unsubscribe from colleges you know you aren’t interested in.</p>
<p>They send you these packets for marketing. They want you to apply so they can have lower admission rates so they can increase their US News and World Reports ranking. Unless you have good stats and good ECs and want to go, then don’t apply. It’ll be a waste of your time and money.</p>
<p>The 5schools that sent the most stuff to my pre-engineering HS senior were:</p>
<p>UChicago (including a Tshirt and a poster)
Vandy
WUSTL
Macalester
Mt Holyoke</p>
<p>Didn’t apply to any of 'em.</p>
<p>Marketing materials mean NOTHING. They are marketing materials for you to learn more about the school. That’s it. Chicago and Wash U especially send a lot of mailings, it is commented here often.</p>
<p>What it means is only that Chicago (an outstanding university) wants to increase (pad, some might suggest) its admissions statistics, and is aggressively marketing to do so.</p>
<p>It does mean something. They either have a really great deal to send junk mail or they have a huge marketing budget.</p>
<p>yea im not gonna apply for any of them either</p>
<p>It means they want u to apply so they can reject u and lower their admit rate.</p>
<p>My son still wears the Chicago T-shirt. Great school, and he might have applied RD (grandfather taught there and loved it), but he hit the lottery during EA. </p>
<p>It’s marketing, and doesn’t mean much, but a T-shirt is a T-shirt :)</p>
<p>For Chicago I think It means they haven’t reached their admission quota yet - probably why they also extended the application deadline. What it could mean also are fewer overall applicants and potentially a high chance of acceptance for those who do apply. </p>
<p>UChicago in particular seems to send tons of stuff and it means nothing. My D who did not have the academic stats to get into UChicago got piles of material from them. It is just marketing and says nothing about your chances for admission.</p>
<p>You never know! D had no interest in Chicago, her dream school was NYU, took upon the ads from Chicago and applied RD. She was waitlisted and got in after April 30 and she has graduated last year.</p>
<p>No. It means nothing. We got bombarded by that University. </p>