Comments on: “Check here to receive information from colleges”

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:03:49 +0000

This senior year I have recycled 106 lbs of college mail (I’ve been weighing the bags) and received over 3000 emails from colleges (I run a program to automatically sort “University” and “College” into one folder). This is the cumulative sum of 2 PSATs, 2 SATs, and 1 ACT broadcasting my address and email to colleges. Be warned that if you participate in the Student Search Service and score well, colleges will not be discerning at all. Checking, for instance, a preference for colleges with “No religious affiliation” will not prevent Oral Roberts University from sending you a few bricks of paper.
Although the College Board does not give colleges your scores when you check this option, it allows them to send information to ranges of scores, say, to “All students scoring 500 or above in Math.” As a result, you will receive spam from even the most obscure schools, stuffing your mailbox with wasteful and expensive packets and viewbooks. Ithaca and Cornell COLLEGE are the worst. The short questionnaire is either not detailed enough or too entirely disregarded to actually provide helpful, relevant college information.
To be fair, each piece of mail allows you to unsubscribe from future mailings with a business reply card, but who has the time or interest to do that?

By: charlotte

charlotte — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:58:04 +0000

I have been using this company called my411…it is a great tool when trying to find schools that I want to recieve more information from. It is especially great at college fairs. All I had to do was go on their website to create my own profile (address, highschool, birthday etc.) and it had a list of all the colleges and universities they were affiliated with. It gave me the advantage at the college fairs to really get to know and talk to the representitive from the college or university and learn more about the school instead of filling out paper work to recieve more information and then not having enough time to look around at the other schools. After, all I had to do was text my411 the list of schools that I wanted to know more about and they forward my profile to the schools of my choice. Also it is a great way of not recieving junk mail because I was able to chose the schools that I wanted and saved me so much TIME. Heres the link my411.com

By: Henderson Nevada

Henderson Nevada — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:42:01 +0000

College is big money = big business. Students pay a lot to get educated. So it’s not surprise you got all that mail. And what is worse is once it starts its hard to stop. I tried to get the post office to stop delivering me junk mail and they told me to write the advertisers. So every week i fill a trash can with junk I don’t want because the Government doesn’t care about the Planet and efficiency… they only care about money. Think about that the next time some politician starts talking about “green” this or that.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:04:57 +0000

@Danielle: Your best bet is to simply check the box when you take a CollegeBoard test.

By: Danielle Kirkley

Danielle Kirkley — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:53:17 +0000

Iam very interested in recieving information about colleges and I was wandering if that is possible. If so can you send me email or brochures on the colleges.