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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. We

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

You don't seem to understand how any of this works.  I guarantee plenty of people who qualify for admission receive those mailers.  And there is no way for them to know without the application itself.  The testing people don't sell names connected to individual scores, just pools and ranges; and test optional makes it less important if they did.[/quote]

You are just ignorant. You have no idea how any of this works. [/quote]

Well since you provide so much evidence that I don't know how this works, I guess that is hard to argue.

Facts:

- There is no way for any college to know the likelihood of admission for any individual applicant.
- The college board does not sell individual scores, and in a test optional world it wouldn't matter if they did
- They are marketing a product just like people who send me mail for cars I would never buy and cruises I will never take
- Your idea that it is nefarious and cruel is preposterous absolutely without evidence.
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