Alas, today was a less fruitful day in terms of college mail. Today's count of perhaps only 7 items cannot compare with yesterday's ginormous (yeah! it's a word now. Thank you webster!), record setting amount, of somewhere in the 30 range. Included in that were postcards, applications, "we're coming to your town!" invitations, and even a T-Shirt. Yes, that's right, I got a T-Shirt in the mail! Isn't that cool?!?!?!
This makes me wonder at the lengths that colleges must go to these days in order to attract the attention of the modern teen. Why do I keep getting repeat mailing of the same information, sometimes 3 of the same brochure on the same day (ahem...university of Texas at Dallas!)? Maybe the colleges are using the "repeated bombardment of our goods strategy". "What is that?" one may ask. Simply put, it is the common marketing strategy of running commercials reapetedly during the first 2 weeks of airing so that it is stuck in the consumer's mind.
Yep, that's my opinion. I'll keep switching the channel if I see a commercial for a Hair Loss cure 10 times in a half-hour and I'll keep throwing away any colleges' mail if I know that it doesn't have the right programs for me....
Yay! Tomorrow's Picture Day...AND something else, that I can't tell you about quite yet...muwhahahah! it's a secret until Sept. 12.
                                                                               "Truth, Scholarship, and Pudding"
                                                                                                           --Osheatunes
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It's rather comical, the way they try and recruit kids.
Caity =)
The thing that gets me is how they mail you until an entire rainforest is dead but then when you apply there they reject you.
I actually throw out most of the stuff I get without actually looking at it. My dad asks me if I liked so and so, and all I can say is "Who?" Oh, and I stopped giving my phone number out. That's saved me hours a week!
"Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustince, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
~Robert F. Kennedy~