<p>Go to:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1168468/000095013406022133/d41473e10vk.htm#102[/url]”>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1168468/000095013406022133/d41473e10vk.htm#102</a></p>
<p>Very informative.</p>
<p>CardinalFocused, where do you go? Stanford or Berkeley?</p>
<p>totally scams…i got this letter yesterday as well…later i found out that there are about 25000 people listed in that book…i am definitely not going to waste 60 bucks on that.</p>
<p>its a scam</p>
<p>It is a good thing that I can read a 10 K.( Thanks a Bear)</p>
<p>So the truth about AAC and Who’s Who and all the others like National Dean’s List.</p>
<p>This Comes straight from the 10K (10K is the report filed by publicly traded companies to the SEC)</p>
<p>Investigations involving certain sources of nominations to our achievement publications may impact our business if those sources become unavailable.
We obtain nominations for our achievement publications from a wide variety of commercial and non-commercial sources, which we continuously update. One company that supplies a significant number of nominees to us for inclusion in our Who?s Who Among American High School Students publication has received an inquiry from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, relating to its supplying names and other personal information of high school students to commercial marketers. We have received a request from the FTC for information relating to this matter and are complying with this request.
In 2002, ECI was advised that a group of up to 30 state attorneys general offices was investigating student privacy issues. ECI was one of the companies from which this group sought information.
During September and October of 2003, ECI received subpoenas or civil investigative demands from eleven states. To our knowledge, no formal sanctions have been proposed or imposed against ECI by any of these states. After responding to these states? subpoenas and requests for information, ECI has heard nothing further regarding this matter for over 3 years. Due to the preliminary investigative nature of this, we are unable to assess the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome or to estimate the amount or range of possible loss to ECI, if any.
We believe that, if we were not able to obtain nominees from this source for any reason that the cost of obtaining such information could be higher than our current cost. </p>
<p>That last paragraph I thought was important! They paid for those(our) names, that is why it is $80+ for the book that we are buying.<br>
Legally they have to publish your name in that book once you send in that bio.
I would use the letter that came with the bio as proof, skip the book.</p>
<p>If you get into Phi Theta Kappa you are automatically put on the National Dean’s list</p>
<p>I know people who have horrendous GPA’s (2.5 ) and get them every semester. List it if you want, but IT IS JUNK MAIL. Feed it to your shredder; my shredder enjoys eating paper!!! With Phi Theta Kappa, however, atleast there are requirements such as a 3.5 GPA to join. Phi Theta Kappa is respected because it means that you are in the top 10% of your class (for the most part). I imagine that there are a few two-year schools with crazy grade inflations, so I think Phi Theta Kappa should be listed as part of awards and the like.
Do not pay National Dean’s List any regard, though.</p>
<p>Hello All!</p>
<p>Actually, you do not have to pay to be listed in the National Dean’s List Publication. If you are “nominated” and you fill out the biographical information form and send it in…costs the amount of a postage stamp…you are listed in the publication.</p>
<p>You have the OPTION to purchase the book, if you would like, or a number of other items commemorating your inclusion in the publication.</p>
<p>No, I do not work for the publication…I am a student…and I thought it might be a scam as some of you think. You can choose to buy stuff from them or not. It does not cost you anything to be in the National Dean’s List Publication.</p>
<p>What the PTK app fee has given me:</p>
<p>Tshirt (at our chapter)</p>
<p>The ability to design to all expenses paid trips for fun (out of state)</p>
<p>Lots of leadership experience</p>
<p>State Conference trips</p>
<p>Community involvement</p>
<p>Potential scholarships (if I went in state I’d get them automatically).</p>
<p>The list goes on, not a rip-off.</p>
<p>I know of one chapter where the provost of the college gives them money to go to Italy and Egypt, no joke!</p>
<p>Yeah I am a PTK officer at my school, (de anza) and PTK is what you make of it. You could strictly just use it for transcript purposes, but it really opens up doors to doing good in the community, and in some cases around the world. I don’t think it should be taken as lightly as other honor clubs, because it is a society.</p>
<p>scammmmmmmmmm</p>
<p>idiooottt :)</p>
<p>So would it be bad for me to just use the letter to apply for the scholarship…cause I so need it???</p>
<p>I am so mad that it is a scam, and I am really NOT that special…geez.</p>
<p>It’s still kind of iffy. The forms they send explain that you have a choice to purchase the book or not and that you’re name’ll be published regardless. They also have applications for a scholarship as well. Granted at the bottom it asks for a $4 processing fee, which it also explains is optional as well. . .</p>
<p>I’m not going to worry too much about it – either I’ll get a scholarship or I won’t. I figured it couldn’t hurt though; I didn’t send in four bucks but I guess even if you did, its just four bucks. If it’s a scam, it isn’t a very good one – that is unless one is dumb enough to spend like $70 to have your picture in a book. . .which even if it isn’t a scam, you’re still retarted to blow your money on such things.</p>
<p>I was Valedictorian of my graduating class & I received one of those National Deans List letters like many of you here. My girlfriend also received one. We were in the same graduating class. She ordered a copy of the NDL book. Well they cashed her check but NEVER sent the book! She had constantly called the number in TX listed on their website only to get the run around. After a WHOLE YEAR has gone by, my girlfriend received a refund check in the mail. For those of you who may be thinking about responding to those NDL letters, all I can say is “Caveat Emptor”. We have never seen thier book and know of no one who has their book. I’ve framed the letter because it looks nice on my wall but I’ve removed the National Deans List from my resume because I won’t promote anything that is a farce, shady and unverifiable.</p>
<p>“I’ve framed the letter because it looks nice on my wall”</p>
<p>Lord, you must be desparate for decoration.</p>
<p>According to the letter, I am among the top 1% of college students. I am a sophomore in high school, and my gpa is nothing to boast. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, I got the letter on June 12 and the deadline to respond was June 1.</p>
<p>someone i was nominated for the ‘list’ and i hadn’t attended school the previous year… i thought i was special until that happened.<br>
no worries, i didn’t give them a cent.</p>
<p>i have actually seen a copy… it was for 1995.</p>
<p>Wow. A sophomore in high school receives a letter, and after the deadline at that. If that doesn’t say SCAM then I don’t know what does!</p>