This was weird. After I thought I'd finally been rid of the college mail from remote and ineligible colleges, here comes yet another!
Friday (I think...) I received a letter from Neumont University in Utah. Apparently they're a computer tech college, whose bachelor's students graduate in two years. Interesting, no? (At least if you're going into software development.)
Sheesh! I leave the blog alone for a bit over a week and I have another folderful of mail!
The most recent was an Air Force ROTC brochure that I got yesterday. "If you think waiting tables to pay for college is difficult, what do you think about waiting tables after you graduate?" Nice. But no.
Got a postcard from a college near our winter vacation spot... a brochure from Antioch (it opens up into a poster?? Why?? And I don't think I'll go to Yellow Springs, OH for college... very involved in the occult.)... a bunch of scholarship info from Ithaca... an oversized brochure from Smith (women's college)... some more scholarship info, but this time from Patrick Henry... and, of course, the obligatory mail from colleges I saw at a college fair.
How in the WORLD did I get on so many NY colleges' mailing lists? (Other than the College Board stuff... that doesn't explain the disproportionate number from that state...)
Anyhow... I shall be mailing two applications this week... because, if I do, I don't have to pay the application fees. *grins*
I must now confess: notwithstanding the extensive practice I have had, I am still terrible at opening envelopes. Now, this doesn't seem to be a very remarkable defect, but when I cannot open an envelope without tearing it in half (or at least taking a good chunk off the stamp's corner), I say to myself... "why can't you just open an envelope like a normal person?"
On to the contents of these envelopes. I received another letter from Princeton today, saying that "the University prizes intellectual curiosity, creativity, and independent thinking." Very nice. They also have a professor there named Peter Singer. And they're on the coast. So I still say no.
Stony Brook also sent me a big brochure (big as in oversized - as thickness goes, it's only a fold-over thing) with another letter. And I got a very large postcard from a college in Michigan that I'm considering attending proclaiming its website.
(And if there's a college named that, I did NOT get mail from it!)
Well, the last few weeks have been busy... so busy, in fact, that I scarce had time to get online, much less update any blogs... so I'll give you all (whoever reads this!) a rundown of the mail collected in my yellow folder since I last updated. At least, what I didn't lose; I may have overlooked one or two letters.
Just Friday I got a letter from Emery-Riddle Aeronautical University; never heard of 'em. Got a letter from West Point the day before! And the reply card was rather funny, in a weird sense: it states that the "public reporting burden for this collection of information" (which amounts to my name, address, and year of graduation!) "is estimated to average 5 minutes per response...." and goes on to tell you all the sort of legal disclaimers you find on a passport application!
Got a whole package from Indiana Wesleyan U.... a postcard from Tri-State U.... a note from Malone.... another letter from IWU.... a viewbook from Patrick Henry College.... a very large brochure from Ithaca College.... a small booklet from U. at Buffalo (why do I get so many letters from New York colleges???).... a letter about the honors program at U. of Michigan...
But I must digress. My neighbors (one little boy in particular!) would kill me if I went to Michigan. Remember, this is OHIO COUNTRY.
To return. I also got a note from Cedarville.... a large viewbook from Ohio State U.... a viewbook from Scripp (a women's college in California; I believe I recorded another letter from them earlier).... and a bit of a letter from Marietta College.
Thus I return for a short time; I may again next week, or next month. I cannot tell.
Received a letter 10/6/2006 from Stony Brook University (third one!), with an admission application and a viewbook. I finally figured out what SUNY means!!! Why does New York get its own acronym for its universities?
Read more...Received an oversized postcard 10/6/2006 from University of Michigan. On the front it has a ton of names listed, and the back explains that they "are a few of the great thinkers and writers Honors students encounter each year" in one of their Honors courses. Amid the likes of Robert Browning, Frederick Douglass and Albert Einstein are listed Angela Davis and Paul McCartney. Apparently Davis was a sixties rebel, and McCartney needs no explanation. And they listed them all in alphabetical order. (Not that it's bad, but I'd prefer them to be by area, or by time period.)
Read more...Received a letter 10/5/2006 from Stony Brook University with a big brochure included. The brochure unfolds so one side can be displayed as a poster. Why?
Read more...Received a letter 10/3/2006 from Illinois Institute of Technology, with a reply envelope included. The bottom of this letter is the reply form, telling me to "get your RESERVED COPY of IIT's Innovative Application today!" It even has a username and password all ready for me to use. Well, at least a technology institute is making use of the most prevalent technology...
Read more...Received a visit brochure 9/29/2006 from Smith College. One visit day was the day before; the other is Veterans' Day. In Massachusetts. Yep. No can do.
Read more...Received a visit brochure 9/27/2006 from University at Buffalo. Very cute. It advertises a Fall Open House - scheduled for October 28th. Yet another case of a belated letter.
Read more...Received a letter 9/27/2006 from Marietta College, with a reply card included. And guess what? If I returned the enclosed card, I'd "be eligible to participate in our Priority Early Application Process. As an early applicant, we will waive your application fee and guarantee you a decision by October 1st." Yah right. I'd return the reply card, receive an admission application, fill it out, send it in, be considered and get a letter back - all in three days. What a way to promise the moon....
Read more...Received a brochure 9/21/2006 from Saint Vincent College. It's in Latrobe, PA. Dad said Latrobe was a beer brand!
Read more...Received a letter and a financial aid reply card today (9/19/2006). From Harvard. Yep. Probably the crowning achievement - a recruitment letter from Harvard. Much better than the tiny postcard I received from Princeton, anyway, don't you think? But...
It's expensive, and it's in Boston. Need I say more?
Ah, I will anyway.The financial aid reply card is attached to a small info card that says: "Parents and families with incomes less than $60,000 no longer will be expected to contribute to their children's Harvard College tuition." Nice. And how am I supposed to pay for it? Just asking...
Anyhow: "Under separate cover, we will be mailing you a packet of material, including an application." I wonder if they'll waive the application fee too? Wouldn't it be fun to apply just to see if they'd accept me? (insert the sticky-tongue-out laughing face from AIM at this point)
Wow! There are fifty colleges in the Boston area?!?
Received a letter and a brochure today (9/19/2006) in the mail. This one's sort of a fluke, simply because I chose "writing" as one of my interests. This institute is more of an artsy place, i.e. creative writing; however, I rather like nonfiction, journalistic writing.
Read more...Received a letter, a brochure and an application for admission to Patrick Henry College today (9/18/2006). I've been interested in them for awhile, and I sent my info in at an Ohio homeschoolers' convention maybe a couple years ago. Plus, since I got four free score reports with my SAT, I decided to send 'em one. No harm in doing so, right? Of course, I've gotten all of... four? five? things in the mail since that homeschool convention... they're not too up on promotion, methinks. Unfortunately, they're in northeastern Virginia, so I don't think I'll end up going there.
Oh yes, got another e-mail from University at Buffalo Saturday (9/16/2006). (What are they doing sending e-mails on Saturday...?) I'm invited to a special online chat, apparently. At least they don't ask me to drive to New York City.
Received a letter today (9/18/2006) from Scripps College. Just a letter, no reply form, no "business reply mail" envelope. Because it said that the admission counselor "will be interviewing in the Cleveland on Monday, October 9th." Reread that. I did not overlook a typo in that sentence! It's obviously a mail-merge letter (look in your Microsoft Word Tools tab).
Read more...Washington & Jefferson College sent me a snail-mail letter this time, which I received today (9/18/2006) with a reply form and envelope (of course). Same offers as last time.
Read more...Finally, a college I've actually heard of. (Okay, I'm exaggerating. But still!) Princeton sent me a nice little brown-and-orange postcard on 9/15/2006, informing me that "you and your parents are cordially invited to attend an informational program about Princeton University" in NEW YORK CITY. I'm in OHIO. Can't they read a map? Or do they just assume that I'm sooooo anxious to learn about Princeton that I'll drive seven to nine hours just to talk to the assistant dean in a hotel conference room?
Anyway..... Princeton is in New Jersey. And none too conservative, last I heard.
Tulane must really like high test scores. I received a letter on 9/15/2006 informing me again of their "personal application" process that's free and easy and quick. Of course they also sent me a reply form and a "business reply mail" envelope. Just to make it easier.
And they sent me an e-mail the same day, with the same information (sans the business reply envelope, of course). Wonderful.
Received a letter, an info page, a brochure, and a bookmark today (9/14/2006) from the University of Michigan. Yup, a bookmark. That's something new, at least.
And I actually like this brochure. It tells me generally interesting stuff, like:
--James Earl Jones went there
--So did Arthur Miller
--And Clarence Darrow
--Over 500 students are from California (why??)
--They have 24 libraries on campus. Isn't that overkill?
--And pretty tulips. Yellow ones, but the color can be forgiven.
I'm not going. But it's a nice brochure.
