@Ciella -
Ha! You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve already started to ignore most of the college emails that I receive spamming me that “they’ll be send an invitation to apply soon” but i didn’t realize how bad it was from Tulane until I put the simple search filter on my inbox…ridiculous!
@WindyCityKid … my son got a lot of mail from Tulane, too, but it’s one school I didn’t complain about.
Why?
–Well, for starters, they sent him a free application so he applied without having to pay a fee.
–Secondly, it was a Realistic school for him … i.e., it wasn’t one of the hyper-selective places that bombed him with mail but where I suspect that he would have been denied, had he applied (e.g., Yale, Princeton, U. of Chicago, and Columbia. The last two sent him piles of stuff). It also wasn’t one of the uber-Safe places that bombarded him … those obscure schools with low GPA and test score medians that a student of his caliber probably wouldn’t find challenging and probably wouldn’t seriously consider.
–Finally, Tulane has excellent merit aid which is a Godsend for middle-class families like our own, and some of the Tulane mailings highlighted these options. My son ended up getting the full-ride Stamps Leadership Award at Tulane, which is supported by the university and by the nationally known (and extremely generous) Stamps Family Charitable Foundation.
He will enroll at Tulane in the fall. Tulane’s outreach efforts, albeit occasionally annoying (I won’t argue with that), have brought in the strongest and most diverse Tulane freshman class so far.
So, while I’m certainly not a huge fan of propaganda overload, at least it’s not as unreasonable when the college sending it is targeting students who are likely to be admitted and actually attend. I think that Tulane does this a lot better than many other colleges and universities do. So don’t be too quick to send your Tulane mail to the Recycle box!
Yeah got a frisbee from Carleton too haha. I thought that was pretty cool
Stanford online executive courses and University on Chicago executive MBA program, so it doesn’t stop after college!
What were your son’s stats Sally?
By email: Hofstra, Case Western, Brandeis, Quinnapic, ASU, Ohio State, John Hopkins, Miami U, UPenn, Brown, Columbia, etc.
Columbia used to send me countless mail when I was in 7th, 8th, and 9th grade asking me to apply. Like my god. Thank goodness they stopped doing that.
Penn State sends me countless mail as well.
Has anyone else been getting phone calls? My D has a couple schools that call constantly. She is not interested, we have told them to stop, but they still call. The worst is Southern New Hampshire University. I am baffled as to why they are calling - my D’s stats are well above their range and she has no interest in going to school in NH. But I would say about twice a week we get the phone call. We now recognize the number (the name is disguised) so we don’t answer but we have told them to stop and they don’t. There are a few others that we also get calls from that are completely random - low stats schools that don’t match D’s desires in any way. I don’t know how they got our phone number.
Back in the active age of MTV, we had a student who stated he was not a good student. He got a 23 on the ACT and was as shocked as anyone. He started receiving snail mail from his stalker school, West Point, as he was a football player.
Washington University in St. Louis, Creighton University, St. Olaf (wherever that is), Colgate, UChicago, Carleton, etc. All I can say is don’t give your email to the ACT.
I’ve gotten a lot of mail from UChicago and WUStL, but I have expressed interest in those schools. The t-shirt was a nice surprise.
Every kid in my school has gotten mail from Ball State. Personally, I’ve gotten a ton of letters from Hillsdale and Kenyon College
I got like 3 letters from St Olaf lol
Hofstra (!!!), Ohio Weslyan, the New School, Hanover and SCAD used to send me mail like crazy. SCAD was particularly funny because they’re an arts college. And anyone who knows me knows I’m artistically challenged.
One day I just got really fed up with all my college emails so I subscribed to every single one. Felt so good.
Isn’t it funny how the colleges you don’t want to go to are the ones that send you the most mail? I always find myself begging my favorite schools to notice me haha 
I just want a college that loves me back…
Hillsdale! Hillsdale was THE stalker school for my son. I’d never heard of it, and as letter after letter piled up, I finally googled the college and almost choked on my coffee. Called “the conservative” Harvard, it couldn’t have been more inappropriate for our family’s political leanings. It’s still a mystery to me how my son got on their list. His older brother never got anything from them, and he had a very similar profile, test score wise.
Interestingly enough, my son applied to both St. Olaf and Carleton, @cug2019, but didn’t get much mail from either of them!
NYU is sending a new letter about once a week, and I am a RISING JUNIOR! Notre Dame sends a good bit, but isn’t awful. Youngstown State sends a new one about once a month, but they’re not pushy about it. It’s always a laid back type of letter.
Texas Tech. I’m not from Texas. I have no desire to go to college in Texas. I’m not interested in or good at anything related to technology, and in the past month, I’ve received 12 emails and multiple letters. Whyyyy? Lol
Johns Hopkins.
California Lutheran…they emailed me until July before freshman yr. Free application, scholarship consideration (even w/their biggest award it would’ve still been unaffordable), still time to apply, blah. Couldn’t take a hint lol
Does anyone know how much information they have from the College Board? Any at all beyond name/address? I’m baffled by the disconnect between my kids stats/stated interests and some of the schools we hear from. (In both directions, though, with the exception of U Chicago and Johns Hopkins, mostly on the low end.)
Related: The schools that bombard you with generic email inviting you participate in the very same visit program you already attended AFTER YOU ALREADY ATTENDED ONE MONTHS BEFORE. I’m sure they’re different data sets, but gee it’s not THAT hard to filter that stuff out. You’d think one list (and a different message) for kids who’ve already visited at least one, another one, with a different message, for the kids they’re still trying to lure in for a visit…