Do colleges keep track of previous interaction?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Sometimes, a college gets an application from a student that they have no record of hearing from (hasn't visited campus, hasn't subscribed to email/brochures, etc).</p>

<p>This is obvous to the college that the student has no intention or desire of attending, and that it's merely a safety school.</p>

<p>Do colleges take this into consideration?
Is it better to have some form of communication with them prior to applying?</p>

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<p>Some schools do keep track of those things, but there are also some that don’t. Often the top universities do not consider interest, while liberal art colleges will. You can check this on the College Board website by seeing if demonstrated interest is listed asa considered factor in admissions.</p>

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<p>That’s right. Most of the top colleges (Ivies and such) usually do not track interest. There are some top schools like USC that do track demonstrated interest though.</p>

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<p>Luckily, true safety schools like 99% of publics use a formulaic GPA/SAT approach.</p>

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<p>^^^ So if a school does not list “demonstrated interest” as one of its factors of consideration, can we safely assume that it keeps no record of prospective student interaction?</p>