<p>I recently unsubscribed from most of their mailing lists so I don't get as much mail.</p>
<p>I got MIT and Caltech today! I'm so flattered.</p>
<p>Me tooo! And Duke. Yay.</p>
<p>University of Evansville sends you SO MUCH STUFF.</p>
<p>i have a pile of JUST their stuff, and i swear i've gotten 20 mailings from them.</p>
<p>Ahaha. I'm a sophmore and I didn't get terrible scores on the PSAT, and all of my friends were starting to get a bunch of emails, but I wasn't, which was slightly depressing. I mean, who doesn't want an email from Harvard that says, "Dear Lara, you're very special, so apply to us!" even if it's just an automatically generated mass email that everyone gets? Then I realized that they'd read my email wrong when I got snail mail that said my email had a different last letter... =D</p>
<p>The PSAT must send them the scores, because I got something from Harvard. I would think they'd want people who got better than 217 but im not sure.</p>
<p>I also got stuff from Washington University in St. Louis, UMR, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and a couple other lesser-knowns.</p>
<p>Evansville too, and I didnt get an email from harvard... paper mail</p>
<p>I'm getting SOO much stuff now. Several every day :D</p>
<p>I recall students being inundated by crap from colleges from that Student Search Service. As a college counselor, I was sent an email from one school who was complaining that a student had yet to reply to them, and they wanted me to "talk to her about her immaturity".</p>
<p>@ thecomisar, I dont think colleges received the data until mid-January, give them a little time and you will need boots to sift through the stuff. 240 puts you on everyone's list.</p>
<p>Just saw your recent post thecomisar, sorry bout that.</p>
<p>No problem. Thanks for the info :)</p>
<p>i'm a sophomore and i took he PSAT for the first time in october. I've also been receiving a huge amount of mail from collages. A lot is from collages i've never heard of and some of it is from colleges like Brown, Duke, Emory, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, NYU, ect. I've also been wondering if it was my scores or if it was completely random. I'm kinda flattered to know that it was loosely based on my scores! But although i have been receiving all of this e-mail, i have yet to actually get anything in the mail. I wonder why that is....</p>
<p>At this point in the year, admissions offices are busy with current applicants. You will probably start getting real mail beginning late spring/summer when they have new materials and start the new cycle.</p>
<p>Also, many of the emails want you to "register" or request additional mailings. That way, they will be able to determine interest before committing to the cost of mass mailing.</p>
<p>i usually pay no attention to letters from colleges, but i recently been getting things from places like brown, standford, nyu and i cant help but feel flattered. </p>
<p>but suddenly im interested in places i have thought of, but not considered good matches, solely because they've shown interest.</p>
<p>I was distressed that colleges weren't sending me anything (got a 223), then it turns out for the past 2 weeks, I have been getting 8-9 college mails a day and my father's email inbox is flooded with college email for ivies, UC's - you name it</p>
<p>QL, I'm sure you already know this, if only from reading here, but I wouldn't consider a school just because it sent you mail. The schools that are sending you mail are not showing a special interest in you- they are trying to up their applications. Some of them may have sent mail to everyone with a certain score range you met, but they are not going to show you any special treatment nor preference; you just got on one of their lists, which mean nothing for admission.</p>
<p>Sorry if that's old information to you; I just brought it up because of the last sentence in your post, which perhaps I read totally incorrectly!</p>
<p>I did really bad on the PSAT(less than 200), and I still got mails from Emory, Brown, U of Chicago, etc... Do they really send mails based on your score, or are they just sending it randomnly, regardless of how well you did on the PSAT?</p>
<p>I think so, since they only receive the range</p>
<p>I have a "college" folder in my e-mail filled with messages from colleges and I have a 2'X1'X1' cardboard box overflowing with snail mail. I get the same letter/brochure three times. Someday... when I finally get this whole college app process over with, I am going to have a huge bonfire and burn all those letters.
The colleges don't actually see your score unless you sent it to them. All they do is they ask collegeboard to report to them students who fall within a range of scores (i.e. 2000 and above). Of course, you will only get mail if you choose to be part of the student selection program that Cb does.</p>
<p>Token parent here.
DD got less than 200 on PSAT.
Schools sending stuff include Duke and Columbia (same day!), Brown, Johns Hopkins, Bucknell, Dickinson, Oberlin, Emory, U of Chicago, WashU at St. Louis, Macalester (very funny letter), Reed, Grinnell.
So cutoff for some very good schools is lower than 200. No one should feel bad about not making that. Great opportunities still exist.</p>