Would it surprise our readers to know that a college touts its indoor plumbing in its marketing materials to encourage high schoolers to apply? If so, maybe the college brochures haven’t begun arriving on your doorstep quite yet…because they are often filled with attempts (both successful and not) at humor. …
Come junior and senior year of high school, no walk outside to the mailbox would be complete without returning home with a college brochure in hand. Many students (and particularly their parents) believe that when a college sends a brochure, it means the college is really interested in you, that …
Has your home been inundated of late with college brochures? If so, we encourage you to use them to keep the fireplace going this winter. On second thought, they may not be ideal for your fireplace as they’re often quite glossy. But our point should be clear. College brochures are …
Did you (or your child) recently receive a ton of college brochures? Maybe they got one from Stanford, another from Yale, and a couple from Dartmouth, Penn, and Duke. So you’re all excited, right? You (or your child) is being recruited by these highly selective colleges, right? Wrong. Sorry to …