<p>We have a pool table at my house, and it hasn't been used for the last 3 months. It's become the college mail pile.
All my stuff from one college goes in one section of the table, stuff from another goes in another corner of the table. Stuff from colleges that I'm not sure I'll apply to go under the table in a large pile.</p>
<p>I have a shelf in my bookshelf thats reserved for college stuff...its pretty crowded!</p>
<p>I have three boxes of junk underneath my desk. There's no more foot room left now...</p>
<p>Once I finish my applications, they will be RECYCLED.</p>
<p>I throw it all out immediately unless it is from a top school or a school to which I will be applying. Most of the top schools I also decline to apply to after extensive investigation of what they have to offer.</p>
<p>Where is it all going? Recycle bin, of course!</p>
<p>I only keep the ones that I will apply to (or consider on applying).</p>
<p>same as above poster except instead of the recycle bin, it goes in the trash :-[</p>
<p>the trash can!!!! we don thavea recylcling system....the silly republican society banished it.......</p>
<p>On the walk up my driveway from my mailbox I pick out any mail from colleges I'm not applying to (I'm a senior) and throw it in the recycling bin in the garage just before I walk inside. So I don't really have much junk mail anymore.</p>
<p>recycling unless it is from a good school or one I want to attend. Then it goes on top of my printer or on the shelf my printer is supposed to be on.</p>
<p>on the piano lol
or sometimes on the coffee table</p>
<p>I keep all big blue envelopes; or, small blue pamphlets. They're the Deis stuff. :) I also have all of my University of Chicago stuff on my bed's endtable. I'm not applying there because the Core is worth than DEATH to my bohemian, rather-take-"Chemistry as Art"-over-Orgo spirit, but it was my dream for three years so I keep it for the novelty.</p>
<p>Other than that, the only schools that want me are public midwest schools, and small, obscure catholic midwest schools, so I throw it away. Whereas my sister gets stuff from Harvard, Brown, MIT. Oy.</p>
<p>its astounding how much paper they've wasted in all. for me alone, it's probably 1000 sheets, at least.</p>
<p>its basically all junk mail.
and now some schools like USC and NYU are mailing whole applications to people who didn't even indicate interest in the school. insane!</p>
<p>I had this sort of tradition for myself that I'd spend ~2 min checking out any college that sent me mail. I still do that, just to make sure there aren't any schools that might have slipped by my Princeton Review/Fiske Guide/Counselor-O-Matic on Princetonreview.com/talking to friends and family/looking at every college w/ a neuroscience major search. </p>
<p>In my head, I call it the fairness test. Also, the letters serve to prop up my ego, lol.</p>
<p>I throw out everything immediately, although some stuff stays on my desk for a day or two.</p>
<p>I did keep the UChicago course catalogs...They're on the shelf in my bathroom...Bathroom reading :D</p>
<p>I don't get a ton yet, although I am a junior, and I only just took the PSATs this year, should I be worried, is this an indicator that I did poorly on my PSATs? Crap.</p>
<p>I have piles all over my house. under the computer table, on the computer table, on and under the extra chairs in the dining room, on the table in our back room, on the bookshelf, on the coffee tables, all over my room...
pretty much everywhere!</p>
<p>dank: chill. The load o' mail doesn't start trickling in until about 2nd semester of your junior year, and then turns in to a flood senior year. </p>
<p>Also, if you checked the "don't send me mail" box on the PSATs, you'll get substantially less. Some get more than others due to: asking for it on certain college websites (which I'd recommend--it shows interest in the school, which some schools use as a factor in admissions), using the counselor-o-matic on princetonreview.com, etc.</p>
<p>the shredder, recycling bin, sometimes we burn them (along with bull***** math tests and last year's apush study guide that had multiple choice questions with the wrong answers) at bonfires</p>
<p>I feel bad just throwing away a lot of the nice stuff that some schools have printed. I might offer it to my GC, but she's so stupid I doubt she'd even know what I was talking about if I asked her.</p>
<p>NYU sends me stuff like every week. Some of those brochures are on really nice paper too - they're wasting so much money on a student who probably won't even apply.</p>
<p>Like Veganactress, there are piles all over the house. I should have a bonfire once I get my acceptance letter.</p>