Johns Hopkins sent me a puzzle last year. Like, a complete, 20 piece, jigsaw puzzle with various pictures of kids on campus.
They also sent me one of those live strong arm bands, but with their name and logo instead?
Northeastern sent me heart candies with phrases like “choose NU” printed on them.
The things colleges do in the name of recruitment now just strike me as bizarre.
U Chicago, William & Mary, Bradley, and Iowa. I have given in to Chicago and responded to some mail. A lot of what they send out are some pretty impressive statistics.
Vanderbilt sends me something about every two weeks - and pretty nice things at that. I’ve gotten the basic booklets, but I also got a full folder of stuff meant to help me with my college search, and many, many other things. It was because of this stuff that I visited Vandy when I was in Nashville and ended up loving it, so I’m glad I did (:
Chicago’s interest is requited at this point. Temple keeps calling every week but is getting nowhere. Columbia is persistent and seems like a good friend but there’s no chemistry there AFAICT.
We got calls from Baylor but this is back in 2007 time frame.
Baylor has definitely picked up the pace with their stalking, St. Olaf too, though that might be due to College Board and DD’s name being on the rolls of kids attending a National Lutheran Youth Gathering this summer, which seems to have a lot of Lutheran schools sending her stuff. Tulane is not a stalker, but their recent application fee waiver hit at just the right time and made D’s list. WUSTL is there in the mailbox as always and Northeastern has sent quite a bit of late.
Temple was calling and mailing quite a bit. It’s the one urban school where S has a shot at a big enough scholarship to be affordable, so in his case it worked. They’re his first choice at this point.
I’ve got Western Carolina University, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and USFSP
Click on “unsubscribe.” It really helps the poor, stressed Seniors.
Oh of the thirsty schools - Tulane is the thirstiest.
But even Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia to name a few have sent unsolicited packages with brochures recently.
I’m a sophomore and I’ve already gotten a couple dozen emails from Mount Mary University and Concordia University Irving. I hit “unsubscribe” and it didn’t work. I also get mail occasionally from University of Notre Dame, but that’s OK because I was part of their online college prep program for 7th-9th graders, plus it’s currently tied as my first choice with Princeton and Wharton. I’ve gotten a little bit of promotional mail from UVA, Emory, UGA, and Saint Olaf too, but I know why they have my info (UVA and Emory are in some kind of group with Notre Dame; I attended swim camps at Saint Olaf and UGA) and they aren’t terribly aggressive. Possibly the most annoying are the military branches- they’re already recruiting really aggressively and it’s rather annoying as I have no interest in joining.
Seton Hall has been keeping the mail and email box full lately.
It is an interesting balance, DD likes it when a school makes her feel, ahem, ‘special’, but recently after the fiftieth, at least, piece of correspondence from one of our local schools, she further defined special as not feeling like you need a restraining order against the school admission office, lol.
Tulane worked for us and she is applying. Mail with application fee waivers is the best kind of stalking.
S’s, a junior, current email stalker schools are Babson (he is a techie and has no interest in small LACs) and Case Western, for the moment. We’ll see what who added as the year progresses. The snail-mail schools are Chicago, Whitworth (?) and a few others. Most of the other schools he gets emails and mail from are schools he expressed interest in, so I can’t fault them.
I don’t understand why do schools do that?
princeton…they just keep sending me spam mail every day…
My son is getting at least one communication per week via regular mail from University of Miami. Amusing because it is one I think he would like IF his test scores were higher . . .
Oh, and more amusingly, Holy Cross. We are Jewish, and my son self identifies as atheist.
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities calls, writes, hits us over and over with the “golden gopher” thing.
My daughter got one too from RIT.
In last few years, we received many mailings from University of Advancing Technology (Arizona) to a child that I don’t have.
Wash U. They started sending mail when my daughter was a freshman. How? Why? No standardized test scores at that point.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Kentucky, Knox College, and Olin are all greater than 10 in terms of physical and digital mail to me.