Our daughter, our eldest, is a sophomore. Apparently it is the season now for her to be deluged with postal mail from colleges and universities all over the country. Many of which I’ve never heard of. 🏫
@ronguest I enjoyed getting all those packets back in the Stone Age when I was a high school sophomore, but I could count the number of colleges I had heard of on one hand.
@garciabuxton I suppose that’s the point - they’re trying to get their name out to the kids. Like you she enjoys them. Yesterday she took a photo of her stack and shared it with her friends.
@garciabuxton In the late 1960s I didn't get ANY packets. One plausible possibility is that I was uniquely undesirable as an applicant. More likely, the sale of mailing lists hadn't become a basic part of the marketing economy, so it just wasn't something that colleges did.
I can also remember the guidance department's standard advice to apply to three schools: Your dream (probably longshot) school, the school you most want to go to (and have a realistic prospect of getting into), and your backup, a school you're pretty sure to get into. I gather things have gotten a lot more complex and expensive since then.