All the top colleges sending mail to DD.
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Anonymous
| What if they invite you to apply and waive application fee |
Anonymous
| DC getting a swarm of mail from Mount Luigi. Excited! |
Anonymous
It means nothing. They want to increase the number of applications just to turn more down. Then they can report to USN&WR and to alums, “Wow! We received 40,000 applications this year! A five fold increase. Out of which only 10,000 were accepted. We are so much more selective than in (insert last year)”. Privates budget for this nonsense. UMD and UVA, being publics, can allocate only so much money to this type of marketing. |
Anonymous
We are also flooded with mail from Case Western. It’s the only college that sends us anything. DD opted out of mail from colleges when she took tests. Perhaps she took a virtual tour at Case Western and provided her address to them, but she also had virtual tours with at least 10 other colleges, and none of them is sending anything besides CW. They indeed sometimes send 2 cards per day. |
Anonymous
| So here are my observations as someone with an average stats student who is not receiving mail from “top” colleges. We have actually been very interested to see the mailings we have received and all of them have been in range for our child. In some cases we were exposed to some schools that weren’t on our radar but could be a good fit. I don’t get the feeling these schools are trying to run up the stats - we have researched them and they all seem right on target as matches or safeties for our child. |
Anonymous
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This is how they keep their acceptance rates so low. They send out mail and act like they are interested in your kid. Your kid applies, alongside everyone else, and their larger applicant pool lowers their acceptance rate.
Obviously my kid with a 3.75 weighted GPA and a 27 ACT has no shot at Columbia, UChicago, etc but he has received mail from them and he isn’t falling for it. |
Anonymous
Could you please explain this joke? |
Anonymous
| It's not just lowering their acceptance rate. It's also another source of revenue for them from application fees. |
Anonymous
NP If you have to explain a joke, it is not funny. |
Anonymous
Not the PP but I am also curious.. this is the second reference, guess it's some kind of inside joke. |
Anonymous
| High Point needs to stop. My son is getting multiple pieces of mail each week and emails almost every day. It’s a garbage school and this makes it even more obvious. |
Anonymous
| Last year, U of Chicago. I could have used their marketing materials and wallpapered the entire house with it (3,000 sq foot, small by DCUM standards, but he got something from them at least once a week) |
Anonymous
No, wrong, it is not part of any nefarious scheme, nor are application fees a profitable endeavor. it’s just marketing. They don’t know if your kid could get in or not and it is not the job of a marketer to decide that anyway. Stop with the conspiracy theories, please. It is tiring. |
Anonymous
It absolutely means nothing. Your app still counts even if they most likely will turn you down. numbers game is what they are playing |
Anonymous
No they are not "playing a numbers game", or any kind of game. They are marketing their college. |