<p>I am a sophomore (going to be a junior),when a college sends you letters does that mean anything? I've always wanted to know if that means I am a potential recruit for that college.</p>
<p>Your parents get $100,000s worth of credit card applications each year. Do they pay attention to those? Apply the same logic. It’s plain marketing.</p>
<p>the ones that continually send you things are legitimately trying to get your attention. But most are just spam. Like I got a letter from Western Carolina saying I got chosen for their priority application where I don’t need to write an essay, I get a faster response time, and faster financial aid responses. I looked that up and it actually is given to a relatively few number of people. Not that I want to go to Western, but still. I would look through the stuff you get, regardless if you want to go there or not.</p>
<p>Thanks! Do you guys have any colleges that you were accepted to that sent you stuff repeatly before hand?</p>
<p>Stop straw grasping. Obviously your name is in many mailing lists. If you receive mail from Yale and Harvard, it doesn’t mean you have any better than the 7% chances like everyone else. Like someone earlier said, a lot of it is spam-like.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most of the mail (99%) is geared to most everyone. The 1% that is valuable will offer you personally a special scholarship or a likely letter or athletic recruiting or something like that. Sorry to say, but don’t get your hopes to high about the mail.</p>
<p>Not trying to put you down! Just saying that the mail goes to most everyone.</p>