<p>Heh, my friend who got accepted into Michigan Tech was sent winter-gloves with her major and minor, "business and economics" written on the outside of them. My friend who was accepted to Albion was sent confetti in her acceptance envelope XDXDXD</p>
<p>IrishThund3r: Veryyy bizarre. I got them too...</p>
<p>Still getting them and I didn't apply?</p>
<p>I'm not getting anymore. I dunno, I didn't pursue anything with U Chicago. I didn't apply many places. My college mail has slowed down considerably. </p>
<p>The University of Mississippi sent me enough crap to keep a campfire going for at least 6 months, which I may very well do during the long cold winters at Bucknell.</p>
<p>^^ Haha, at least it's proving to be useful.</p>
<p>I think Carleton has sent me the most interesting stuff. I got a calendar I loved for the last school year. I was very sad when I didn't get another one for this year. :(
They send great emails too.
I love the personality of the school, but I'm not applying.</p>
<p>And it's not exactly from a college, but I randomly got a hat from a scholarship website.</p>
<p>Yale's viewbook. It was really nice, but seems a little ridiculous considering how little chance I had of actually getting in. I was pumped when I first got it, but then I realized how many people get them. Why get your hopes up? Totally unmerited information from highly selective colleges is one of the weirdest things I think any applicant gets.</p>
<p>Oh, I know. I got a letter about how great Harvard's financial aid is... As if they'd accept me if I applied.</p>
<p>Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I happened on it and thought it was cool. Anyways…</p>
<p>Handwritten cards from:
Calvin
Bennington
Miami of Ohio</p>
<p>Window Decals from:
West Virginia U
Xavier U</p>
<p>Periodic Table from Reed</p>
<p>A mailing that smelled like marijuana from St. John’s</p>
<p>A course catalog from Indiana U of PA (along with quite possibly the largest info folder I have ever seen in my life…)</p>
<p>A DVD from U Rochester</p>
<p>A letter from U Miami that adressed me by the wrong first name</p>
<p>A pencil from Denison (and that was all they sent in that mailing…)</p>
<p>Letters from two DIFFERENT Westminster colleges</p>
<p>A really random large thing from Fontbonne university (haven’t heard from them since…)</p>
<p>… and that’s about it. Every day’s an adventure, though 
.</p>
<p>I got the huge course catalog from WUSTL as well, but I was ecstatic. I love the school, plus course catalogs are very informative (and in the case of WUSTL, easier to navigate than the actual website).</p>
<p>You guys make me miss having a full mailbox every day. :P</p>
<p>I remember the Periodic Table from Reed, a full map with all attractions near the college from… somewhere down south (can’t remember – it was 2 years ago!), a stuffed penguin (from Alaska, I’m guessing – only met one other person who was sent one of these), and a huge envelope of information totally in Spanish from a college in Spain.</p>
<p>I´m laughing at the people who get US military info and aren´t american.</p>
<p>Little do they know, you don´t <em>have</em> to be a US citizen to serve. xD</p>
<p>I got the reed periodic table, a pack of cards from Conn (I carry that around in my purse daily), tons of stuff from UChi (postcards, booklets, soon to come a catalogue…) a hand written postcard from Cornell College (Purple ink), a button and poster from knox, a funny realization that Scripps (outside LA) and Barnard (in NYC) both have view books that personify their respective stereotypes. [Scripps was bright pink, orange, and green, and a very bright sunny layout. Barnard was sleek black on black text, with a focus on the city.] Embarassment for Wellesley- their first viewbook they sent me was a bit of shoddy work on the Graphic Designer’s part. (And Barnard, who labeled Borneo as Singapore. Mayhaps they need some better Geography skills?) </p>
<p>And a pained experession when I opened up Princeton’s diversity booklet, and the black and white pictures were colored over in the spots where the minorities were in the picture. The asians had low opacity rectangles of yellow, the blacks had blue or brown, etc. My mother agreed that the pictures were awkwardly posed, slightly offensive (you had to color the minorites?) and ultimately just bad compositionally, with white students in nearly every picture and just generally not looking too diverse or welcoming. (As compared to say, Bryn Mawr’s diversity packet.)</p>
<p>^ Ha! I’d love to see Princeton’s diversity booklet. Didn’t get that one, but it sounds awful. Some colleges sent me some stereotypical stuff as well, like pictures where you can tell every Asian on campus was grouped together for a picture just to show there’s Asian representation and all of that.</p>
<p>You can view it online, you lucky thing!:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/diversity/pdf/definingdiversity2007.pdf[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/diversity/pdf/definingdiversity2007.pdf</a></p>
<p>Some may disagree, but I found this to be the most tasteless piece I recieved from anywhere.</p>
<p>Sometimes I hate getting “diversity” mail. I often get contacted by the black councils or student groups from schools, or the colleges write about them. Okay, I’m black. I get it. Thank you for noticing. Can we move on? One piece of mail doesn’t bother me, but some colleges have sent me half a dozen DIFFERENT diversity brochures!</p>
<p>I got like an 75 page viewbook from University of Richmond
A thing with my name on a billboard from University of Dayton
Life of the Mind book from U Chicago, its like 130 pages</p>
<p>Nothing really weird</p>
<p>I get so much mail.</p>
<p>I got Princeton’s diversity thing. There was a student in there from my city (Shriya Raghavan, she’s the one spinning in the colorful dress), so I thought it was cool, even though I wasn’t considering Princeton at the time.
I got the Reed periodic table.
I get crazy books from some schools. UChicago, but that makes sense since I respond to all of their stuff, but also Richmond, and Williams, and some other places. Williams sends me so many books. I’m like, OMG, I’m applying to Swarthmore, it’s over.
I got a very nice, hand-signed letter from the President of Bryn Mawr, since I got their Book Award.</p>
<p>I got some stickers from Humboldt state, even though I am not applying…
I also got a periodic table of elements from some tech school, it has formulas in the back… just in case I forget them (not that I memorize them on purpose anyway).
Kilt from C.M.
Foil packet from Olin
and really really nice books from Columbia
And a signed letter from Southwestern</p>
<p>I got a whole pack of stickers, bumper stickers, magnets, etc. from Lake Erie College.</p>
<p>Shrink wrapped t-shirts (two identical shirts from the same school)
Seed packet
Mouse pad
Squishy stress ball in the shape of a brain
Letter opener
Post-it Notes
iTunes (generic) gift card
Tote bag
Bubbles
Pens/pencils</p>
<p>Forgot to mention I got a calendar from Carleton, which was actually pretty nice.</p>
<p>Also got a thing from Marian College in Indianapolis that had the billboard thing like a poster above mentioned they got from U Dayton, with “(my name) is brilliant” on the full side of a postcard. Kinda kitsch, but it got my attention and was early in the “process” (think Sophomore year after PLAN testing).</p>
<p>Some of these ad campaigns are pretty effective at getting my attention, others a little less so, but it always interesting to see what we all consider “memorable”.</p>