all-expense paid visit

UnivPro
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:02:13 +0000

It is very simple. This admissions office, like every other, buys lists of names of prospective students. These are based on SAT/ACT scores and self-reported grades given to the testing firms. Once they have the names they start to “market” to them. For specific groups they are targeting, say Jewish, first generation college, and minority the marketing takes on different forms. So, the expense paid trips are simply one of those forms the admissions office is using. While it may seem early in the cycle, before an application is even started much less submitted, everyone does this to one degree or another.