<p>Do you think that most on-the-ball colleges are smart enough to remove a candidate from its email blasts if the candidate has been rejected?</p>
<p>no .</p>
<p>No .</p>
<p>They just twist the knife.
<sigh></sigh></p>
<p>That would depend on what “on-the-ball” means.</p>
<p>No, they aren’t. Marketing and admissions are two different things that don’t always communicate well. It can make for some royally insensitive screwups every year…like emailing, calling, or sending a letter asking a student to apply, after they’ve been rejected. It does seem that the school is being terribly cruel, but really it’s a marketing firm, not the school at all, that does this for many schools, that just didn’t get the information in time.</p>
<p>How about sending “alumni” letters to a student who transferred out in their freshman year? These all start with, “Congratulations, alumni!” - um, really? Ok then.</p>
<p>Oh, I’ve been trying to stop these darn things for years. I see these as one thing only, a hook for a donation. It’s probably another third party.</p>
<p>My S transferred out of a university after freshman year 10 years ago. I still get mail solicitations from them. And once I got a phone solicitation from a then current student. I said, “Well, my son hated _____ so much he transferred.” Awkward silence.</p>
<p>They gather much more in the way of reputation from those they reject than from those they accept.</p>
<p>They WANT you talking about how brilliant Sonny Boy got rejected.</p>
<p>My d is a proud alum of college x… on their website where they have student profiles, they had a profile of a boy who graduated from our high school the year before her… except that he transferred out of that school after sophomore year… so what can you say about that… truth in advertising??? Clearly the website development team has no knowledge that this supposedly random group of students (actually they were all tour guides at the time) may or may not still be students…</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>These are the same sort of people who are still sending solicitations for charitable donations to my father, who died in 2004.</p>
<p>I got a call a couple years ago from the school I transferred away from (30+ years before.) It was actually from a former roommate of mine, whom I am on friendly though infrequent-contact terms with. She wanted me to pledge a donation to them so they could have 100% return from “our” class. I maintained that they certainly didn’t need me, as I didn’t graduate with the class, but she said I counted. It really bugged me cuz I like her and didn’t want to hurt her feelings, but at the same time I really disliked the school, and there was no way I wanted to send them money. Felt very manipulative to me.</p>
<p>I just got an annual greeting from the college that older d graduated from in 2007 which is lovely except that it was sent to my work email address, actually to one that is no longer used but it did roll over to current one.</p>
<p>No. We are still getting mail from some of the colleges that DS was accepted to LAST year and he decided not to attend. Mail about football tickets,parents weekends and other stuff. It’s like once you are on a list it’s hard to get off…</p>
<p>I still get phone calls and mail from Full Sail even though I never even applied. I asked for info probably in 2006, never went ahead with the application, and have since informed them multiple times that not only am I NOT considering Full Sail any longer, I have since changed my field and graduated from a completely different college and am no longer a student. They don’t care.</p>