<p>For the past few weeks, I've been getting tons of emails and things in the mail from random colleges... I don't even know why. Before it was nothing, now its practically a daily thing. They say stuff like "We are impressed with your achievements in high school" and "You've made our list of students from (insert my town name here)." Why is this happening all of a sudden?</p>
<p>Because you checked a box when you registered for the SAT or PSAT that said you’d let them pass your name on to colleges. And then a jillion colleges bought a list from the College Board that included your name, address and email address.</p>
<p>do the colleges just send emails to everyone that checked that then?</p>
<p>They buy huge lists of test-takers’ names. I would imagine that College Board probably sells lists of names sorted all kinds of ways (for example, geographically, or by registrant-reported GPA, or by math scores, or what have you), but I have no idea how the marketing actually works.</p>
<p>ir means that you scored within a certain area on the PSAT. (ie above 150 or whatever). thats really it</p>