<p>The letters from assorted colleges are rolling in daily, not for my D1 (senior) but for my D2 (sophomore!). The schools are an eclectic mix, not ones she would have thought to look at, but still...she is excited that it is now "her turn". I believe that this mail frenzy has to do with the PSAT (required of sophomores at her HS) but does anyone know if there is any correlation to how she scored? She has gotten mail from Stetson, Rollins, Drexel, U of Miami, and Emory.</p>
<p>congrats!
from what i hear and see, stetson is not the way to go. too many drugs.</p>
<p>Welcome your D2 to the world of too-much-mail. :) My now-junior S received a pile of mailings starting last year after his sophomore practice PSATs so I'd be willing to bet she did reasonably well. My S did not do quite well enough as a soph. to have rated NM Commended if the evaluation had been done last year, so it's probably not safe to guess at specific score levels based on the arrival of college brochures. Scores should be available to us mere mortals within a couple weeks, I think.</p>
<p>I got mail from Harvard, Caltech, etc with a 183 PSAT sophomore year. Decent, but not outstanding scores. I think they send them to everyone because I had friends with much lower scores (150 ish) get mail from Ivies also. After that, I never checked the box to get mail again on College Board tests, so I only get mail from colleges I've visited or sent SAT scores.</p>
<p>They don't send it based on score. The collegeboard does not send mailing lists PSAT scores. They only send information from a survey that students that take before the test: gpa, intended major, etc.</p>
<p>A lot of people get mail from colleges. Freshman year I got one from Drexel and U of Miami. I think it's just to get you interested. For my major I put Pre-med so that's probably why they did that.</p>