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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there really someone here who is defending University of  Chicago’s transparently sleazy marketing practices? [/quote]

What is "transparently sleazy" about their "marketing practices"?[/quote]

Sending weekly mailers to kids who they know they’d never admit in an effort to boost the number of applications they get is clearly sleazy. Come on. [/quote]

How do they know they would not admit ANY of the kids that get their mailers?[/quote]

They send the mailers based on demographics and scores. They have a very good idea of who is receiving the mailers and who they might admit.

You don’t seem to understand how sophisticated targeted marketing is. [/quote]

My kid with a 1100 SAT got tons of UChicago marketing.  Not buying that they were a valid candidate...I'm smart enough to know that, but some parents might encourage their kid to apply and waste time and money[/quote]

And hope.[/quote]

Yup---I just wish they would at least market to kids that have a chance.....like only if the SAT is over 1400 or something like that.  Because even though my 1100 SAT kid is 'terrible at test taking" they also only had one AP course, and did really bad in that one semester---they struggled enough freshman year at a decent college, they would have flunked out at a T20 school had they somehow gotten in (not that they would).  [/quote]

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