The_Man
Footballguy
Hi, Nigel.Did he apply to BC? Based on his criteria seems like a good fit, with grandparents nearby.My son's school has students take a practice PSAT as sophomores, followed by the PSAT as juniors, and the SAT/ACT afterward.
When he signed up for that first PSAT, he put down our shared home email address. Ever since, I've thrown every piece of college-related email that has arrived into a separate folder.
Since the first email arrived in January of 2014 (midway through his sophomore year) through this morning, he's received 2,414 college-related emails. The volume of spam is unbelievable - obviously a lot of these schools work with one firm, as he'll receive a half-dozen emails in rapid succession, all of which are formatted exactly the same, and all of which have the exact same content, just with different school names written in.
No wonder kids don't look at their email. His college counselor told the students to create a separate email address for the schools they actually apply to, so that they know all correspondence they receive at that address will be stuff they want to see. One kid missed out on a scholarship last year because she didn't bother to open some of the college email she received because she thought it was just junk.
My son is applying to 9 schools. Over the last 2 years, he received a total of 19 unsolicited emails from those schools, and 5 of them didn't send him a single email; another sent 1. That means of the 2,414 emails colleges have sent over the last 2 years, 99.992% had zero impact.
He looked at BC but it was really too close to his grandmother's - virtually across the street (she lives off of Lake Street, right behind the end of the B line, if you know where that is and I'm pretty sure you do). Also the tour gave off a way-too-Catholic vibe, and this is coming from someone who got married at St. Ignatius on the BC campus.
I thought it would have been a good choice, but it gets back to the "fit" discussion, and he just wasn't feeling it.