<p>Hi,
I am going to be a senior in a couple weeks and I have been receiving an extraordinary amount of college mail. Including college brochures and applications. Is everyone receiving all this? How do they get my information? Of course the question we all want to know is when Dartmouth or Yale sends me an application do I have an edge? (wishful thinking? :o) )</p>
<p>Everyone gets this. Well, most people. They get your info from PSAT tests, etc. So, no, it won't affect your chances.</p>
<p>seriously guys....isnt anyone else getting all that college mail???</p>
<p>yeah ive gotten applications and packets from cornell and dartmouth, I asked the same question a while ago and most people told me its just a marketing thing to get more students to apply to their school in order to increase selectivity...ithink?</p>
<p>Yes, I have gotten a lot of mail. I got the Dartmouth app yesterday, and Harvard is sending one (they sent a letter saying they were, at least).</p>
<p>It's not a huge deal, but they probably wouldn't send the mail to hugely unrealistic candidates. If you are getting an app, they probably think you at least have a chance of getting in. But they also want to decrease admissions rates.</p>
<p>kmitch, almost every rising senior is getting these mailings. If they provide information about a school you hadn't previously considered, great. But don't think that they mean the school really "wants" you, it's all marketing.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely get a lot of college mail...usually from the same places, over and over...Bryn Mawr, for one, and Washington U in St. Louis is TERRIBLE about sending too much mail; think of how many trees they're killing! The more they send me, the less I want to go
Lol</p>
<p>It doesn't increase your chances at all.</p>
<p>I live in Estonia and I still get tons of college mail (from UK and US, feel kind of sorry for our mail carrier)</p>
<p>Regarding Posts 1,3:
If you are receiving from the top schools it implies they believe you would
apply hence probably in a more select group of 100K students out of the
~2.5 Million out there. ~2K students per state. If you go by college
typically around 50 students from a state EA+RD+WL. So they are marketing at ~1:40</p>
<p>The aim of the "reach out marketing" side of college is different from that
of the admissions side. When you receive a mailing it is not uncommon to be
thinking that the latter group is sending the material out but it is the former.</p>
<p>If your good (your stats usually), you get a ton of mail, period. </p>
<p>It doesnt help you in the actual admissions as kartrider said. Collect the bulk of it and every few weeks go through it, throw out colleges you don't care about/aren't considering and keep the others neatly organized by college. And actually read it, you might find a school you never considered.</p>
<p>Context: </p>
<p>Online</a> Extra: How Harvard Gets its Best and Brightest </p>
<p>Receiving one of 70,000 recruiting letters means you may as well apply, if you like the college, but it doesn't mean you'll be one of the 2,000 students who receive an offer of admission (some of whom never received a recruiting letter beforehand).</p>
<p>Hilariously I haven't gotten any mail from any college, even from the college whose mailing list I've signed up for. I want to see other colleges' brochures, but I already know where I want to go.</p>
<p>My son is receiving quite a few emails, but only a little snailmail. He's got his list already figured out and mail from any other colleges is only considered to be a mildly pleasant diversion.</p>
<p>As a rising sophomore (even one who marked not to be solicited on the PSAT), even I've been receiving oodles of college mail. It's freaking me out (obviously not THAT much or I wouldn't be on here, but still). I'm still young!</p>
<p>yea n when u put a school on the common app u get added to the college's mailing list.</p>
<p>I wrote down my dad's email address on the PSAT form because I didn't want to deal with all the emails LOL. He was kind of annoyed at first, but now he just deletes them.</p>
<p>College mail has slowed down over the summer, usually I get 1-3 letters/brochures/etc. per day.</p>
<p>Do schools see test scores or "screen" people to put on a mailing list? It's weird that as a rising junior I have received only a few pieces of mail even with my ACT/AP scores.</p>
<p>I assume it's only time.</p>
<p>the amount of paper used kills me</p>
<p>I got a few letters on Cornell's ILR school and will be applying there. It might be annoying getting so much mail, but if you really read and find what the school has to offer, you're definitely better for it.</p>