Out of the blue, this week seems to be some kind of gateway to the college brochures. We got one last week, which shocked the hell out of me, and then this week the gateway opened and my mail is filled with them. Sometimes as many as 10 a day. While the Boy isn't all that interested right now, I think we should save them for a bit later in the year.
But how do I organize them. Should I do it by region? By state? By possibility of actual acceptance? I need some suggestions because I honestly don't have a clue. I know we don't want to toss them yet, because we haven't had the time to actually look through them. But some kind of organization system is calling, I know it is. I just don't know WHAT to save and what not. And how to save them.
I have a lot of stuff from the school that needs to be saved as well, like the ACT and SAT applications. Oy Vey!
Tell me, oh wise mothers of children already in college, how did you deal with this influx of paper?
My kids took care of that stuff on their own. Oldest one's strategy was to have three laundry baskets (the big rubbermaid ones)--one for schools that recruiting her through the athletic dept., one for those who were recruiting her through the admissions office and one for schools that were doing both. She figured she had the best chance with schools that would give her both an academic and an athletic scholarship and she was right. She got a full ride.
Not sure what the younger one's strategy was but the acceptances are rolling in right now so it must have worked.
Posted by: Chloe | March 19, 2008 at 01:05 AM