@Altras too lazy to find it right now but in one of those great articles that appear each year compiling interesting/successful college application essays (the NYT does these, among other pubs), one kid’s essay was basically a calculation of the postage from all of the brochures, flyers, invitations to apply, etc. which the kid had received, along with some back of the envelope math on the carbon footprint of same. IIRC kid got in everywhere.