My daughter is. Chicago email almost weekly it seems.
@tgirlfriend not sure about email as S sees those. We just got another postcard from them in the last week though.
No, we wont help you pad your rejections.
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Son is bombarded by U Chicago non stop. I should tell son to unsubscribe. He literally has no interest AND no shot at acceptance. We get emails almost every day, and paper goods 1x per week.
I posted this somewhere else, but as of a 1 year ago I knew nothing about UChicago. I mean nothing! .'ve never met one person that went to school there. So I was rather shocked to learn how highly regarded and selective a school it was. It just never dawned on me that it was a “top tier” school. After some research it looks like a pretty cool place to go to school for the right student, but that student is neither of my kids 
@saillakeerie …We have never requested anything from them. Do you think the stalker mode is because of NMSF cutoff numbers? University of Chicago was number the 1 school with NMF last year. OU shared that information with us on the visit there.
@Tgirlfriend No idea about email. But we get snail mail from them almost every week. Stands out because it’s only school that sends mail, where S17 hasn’t visited. And we get postcards at least once a week.
And they started sending mail after S17 took the Sat Math II Subject test last year. I do think they get #'s of College Board. S17 does also pass the cutoff for commended on NM.
@itsgettingreal17 The schools on the list are
Ole Miss (Arabic program plus Croft Institute and Center for Intelligence and Security Studies minor)
Oklahoma (Arabic Flagship plus College of International Studies)
Maryland (Arabic Flagship and new IR concentration, but highest scholarship needed)
Ohio State (v strong IS; Arabic possible if topics in repeatable grad seminar in Arabic studies actually vary each semester)
Arizona (Arabic Flagship–D knows students in the program; higher end of our price range)
American (School of International Service; actual Arabic offerings may be skimpy 
; would need highest scholarship to get near our price range)
George Washington (Elliott School of International Affairs; Arabic could work; would need highest scholarship; and D hated the campus lol)
If money were not a concern, she’d apply to UTexas for the Arabic Flagship and Georgetown for both IR and Arabic (so many classes including grad level).
For those who may not know, D will be entering college at a level equivalent to fifth or sixth semester Arabic. Her goal is to graduate with an IR degree and be able to work professionally using Arabic. That will require a Superior/ILR 3+ rating. Critical Language Flagship schools combine rigorous coursework with required summer language-aquisition study and internships abroad, including a fifth-year Capstone year, to bring their graduates to that level of proficiency.
@CT1417 I think their might be more than +/- eight schools that require all testing history to be submitted. UofSC requires all test history, and I think that is not as prestigious as the ones you are likely thinking of, so it really needs to be researched at each individual school. If that is one of the eight you were thinking about, then I’m endlessly impressed! 
@dfbdfb We visited Cleveland/CWRU on probably the coldest day of the year in February. It was brutal (but similar to what we had left in Chicago). D17 still liked it…hope yours did the same!
Speaking of CWRU, re: showing interest…I totally blew it when we visited and did not think to schedule an interview. Dumb dumb dumb. Now we have to figure that one out.
@curiositycat333 thanks for the reply. Trust me when I say she has done all of that. She knows which schools offer it. My point was not to find a suggestion for another school or how to find another program. My point was that there are so many and we are all bombarded with information during this process. Sometimes I think that good schools just get overlooked.
@Tgirlfriend My daughter never requested anything from U of Chicago either. My son received a lot of emails from them two years ago and he was a NMF. Don’t know if the emails/mail is because of NM (daughter should make it absent something no one appears to be expecting at the moment – fingers crossed) or just high test scores. She has taken both the old and new SAT and the ACT. Gets letters offering minimum scholarships on a regular basis to schools (more local/in-state than out). She stopped paying attention to them a while back.
Both my kids have always done well on standardized tests. So its interesting to see parents talking with relief about kids being done with standardized tests. My son definitely is done (outside a grad school admission test possibly). Daughter likely is. She hasn’t taken any subject tests (son took math 2, chem, physics and world history). She isn’t applying to any schools that require them. So a chapter of their lives at which they did well, is over. Daughter is likely done with math after AP bc next year even though she is great at it.
@2muchquan – you are correct that I was not thinking of UofSC! My bad, and thanks for pointing that out. The only state school that I knew required all testing history was Berkeley, with some ambiguity about the other UCs, but I have not drilled down as Berkeley has fallen off the list.
I just went back to the notes I had compiled for myself a couple of years ago, and realized that I didn’t read all the way through the document. I had a few LACs also: Colgate, Pomona, Macalester, & Harvey Mudd. (Is HM a LAC?)
I do not know how current this document is, but I had the link in the same note about score reporting policies. Even when I read the policies on the individual schools’ websites, the language can be ambiguous.
RE: not scheduling interview at Case. Would they even have offered an interview to a Jr at that time? Some schools will not offer interviews until summer after Jr year. Annoying, to say the least. As if we all have the time and money to return to these schools a second time. I admit that I did return for summer interviews with older son, but those schools were within a two or three hour drive.
D is not getting stalked by Chicago. She does get mail from them, but it’s not frequent. But Princeton is back. They say they are giving her one last chance (for the 20th time). They took a short break.
@WhereIsMyKindle Thanks! Surprised not to see a few of the schools still in our list on yours like OSU and MSU.
Yale, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, SMU and CM are constantly emailing. Have not shown interest in any of them and they are all unaffordable and not on our radar. Sad about Penn since it is my alma mater but theres no way we could come up with that $$.
Regarding UChicago stalking…. again. I can honestly let you know that my son is not being stalked because of stellar NMSF numbers
My son has done Ok on standardized tests, but nowhere near some of the kids in here.
Just a hunch, I think he is being stalked by geographic location. Our zip code/school code probably produces enough kids that could qualify academically and afford to go there. He has received a lot of promo material from high cost private schools he has not show in interest in.
@itsgettingreal17 OSU and MSU?
Ohio State and Michigan State
UChicago has been stalking most kids in our area.
Lots of postcards, booklets, large posters but no T-shirt.
(We got zero T-shirts from all the schools we visited & followed. What are we doing wrong?)
A cool school without engineering so definitely no.
@itsgettingreal17, S also has been put on notice by Princeton that this is his last e-mail =))
S has gotten mail from UChicago, but not many e-mails. Wrong zip code likely. And the only “free” tee shirt is from OU. He got it when he visited them, so it was an expensive free tee shirt!
UChicago has been stalking DS weekly with paper. It is definitely not because of his PSAT score… It has to be his ACT score or maybe because our high school has a least one kid who ends up attending there.
@RightCoaster …it was only 1 email a week and now they have gone to 2 emails in a week. We have never shown interest in that college and are far away from that location. These are just the emails that are being sent to his parent. S did get a thick book from Yale a few weeks ago… .I think I saw some others get that same book on here. SMU is sending emails a lot also. I called the number the other day to ask about scholarships and the girl that answered the phone number that was given in the email to call with questions was rude to me. Really? Yesterday S got a user Id and password from them in the mail. SMU would be on his list if they were nicer about things. Goodness. We have visited several schools and OU set the bar pretty high, I do have to admit. We want to visit Alabama as soon as we can. Finding out NMSF cutoff will way heavy on my S’s decision.