How to Get Mail From Colleges

Hello everyone!

Today I’m going to be discussing a topic that I was curious about not so long ago: how to receive mail from different colleges. There weren’t many resources or articles discussing it, so I figured out a few things on my own and have now started to receive various mail and brochures from colleges! It’s kind of exciting to get anything in the mail, especially something from a school. If you’re interested in getting information on certain schools or anything of the sort, keep reading. Fair warning: depending on what you sign up for, your email box may be stuffed on the regular.

There are two main approaches to how you can begin getting mail/emails from universities. The first and most obvious one would be to sign up for their mailing lists. I would only recommend doing this if you have specific schools in mind/a few you’re really interested in, because you may have to fill out quite a few fields and it can be very time-consuming.

The second approach would be to check the box on AP tests/the PSAT/SAT regarding if you would like to receive communication/mail from colleges. I don’t know what the exact wording or name of it is, but it’s pretty clear on the scantron. I checked this box on my AP Human Geography test this year and didn’t get anything from it, so it may only catch schools’ attention if you are taking core subject APs or the PSAT/SAT. College Board has a page on their website called Student Search and you can sign up for the same thing (it’s meant to help you look for colleges, but the point is you can get some mail).

One last thing I wanted to mention is Naviance. It’s kind of a college-planning/future-planning tool that some schools and counselors use. I know not all schools use Naviance, but mine does- there’s an option where you can “like” certain schools and I think if you meet a certain threshold on stats or if a school is just known for sending lots of mail, there will be a notification that pops up saying a college would like to “communicate” with you. If you say yes and put in your information, you’ll start receiving mail that way. Naviance is a pretty cool resource in general, so I’ll probably go more into depth about how you can use it in another post.

I hope this post was informative in how you can start communicating with different colleges through mail; it’s definitely a shorter post, but that’s just because it’s a super simple topic! I know that it’s a little early to be thinking about the college process for myself as I’m a sophomore, but I’m an overthinker and think a lot about the future so it just happens. That being said, I figured this could help a lot of other people who are either getting started early like me, or juniors who are really starting to get involved in looking at schools. Let me know if you would like to see more posts related to the college process- I’ll be coming out with lots of other exciting content soon.

-Brooke