And another enrollment management company. https://www.eab.com/services/enrollment-servicesCBand ACT sell data for about $0.35 a head too.
I can think of few schools I would say that about. It likely says more about your student than the school, honestly. My experience is that most colleges in the US have very high quality professors – we have such a deep talent pool of underemployed PhDs that even state directionals have a lot of really excellent faculty. A kid who is good at taking advantage of the opportunities offered can really get a lot out of many lower ranked schools. Same is true for a kid who starts at CC and transfers to a 4 year school. Maybe YOU wasted the opportunity. It doesn’t mean your kid would.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-415-683-7860 has a reference to a call from “Planning 4 Edu”
Agree with @intparent. You can get a great education anywhere.
It’s totally OK and normal to want the best for your kids; it’s another thing to think that they are so special that they are above attending really any institution of higher learning. There is a fine line here between arrogance and honest ambition. And PS: a lot of kids get fantastic grades.
Understand that even at the big party schools that you refer to as a joke, there are scores of brilliant kids who are there for a variety of reasons. Scores of kids who are every bit as capable, and many who are more capable, than your two kids.
In my neck of the woods, Washington State University gets that tag. And yet, there are more than a small handful of kids attending that school who can run intellectual circles around most people posting on this forum. I don’t say that because I have any skin in the game. I did not attend, nor have any of my relatives or children attended, Washington State University. The point stands. There are resources and are smart kids there. There are smart kids everywhere.
I have one of those really smart kids from WSU but she is not going to run intellectual circles around the usual parent posters here. It takes a while to appreciate just how smart some of these parents are.
WSU did have some pretty impressive kids there, though, with capabilities for any college in the country. I think that would be true of any large public that draws statewide.
My kids got phone calls from a hired phone service contracted by the universities but non-affiliated. We started to recognize the number with a Philly area code. The same people called for many colleges, none near Philadelphia.
Magnetron- we’ve seen the same thing. A decent amount of the calls come from a company that was contracted to contact the student and ask if they can send more information about a college. We’ve gotten a bunch of those from the same number but representing different colleges.
And then some calls come directly from the colleges, usually from a student.
I let my kids handle the calls, but I tell them to always be polite. They generally turn down the offer to send literature (“I’m looking for a larger school,” etc), but they are polite.
When U of Minnesota called, I wasn’t home. My son told them he wasn’t going to school anywhere that cold. I told him he shouldn’t have said that, and he said the student who called thought it was hilarious.