<p>Do the colleges maintain a list of prospective students that they are interested in? If so, do they contact the students?
thx</p>
<p>They buy massive lists of PSAT, AP, SAT and ACT high scoring students. Also your school district may even sell your information to the marketing arms of the schools. But NO they don't keep lists of prospective HS students unless an actual rep has met them at various college fairs and will maintain contact in order to entice an application being submitted.</p>
<p>Thanks T26E4
What about the schools where I sent my scores ( the freebees) - I have'nt heard from any of them too..</p>
<p>Anyone - ever receive applications or invites from ivy schools? before you applied?</p>
<p>These aren't exactly ivy schools, but my D just received an unsolicited app from Bryn Mawr and and invitation to apply for admittance and full tuition scholarship from Scripps. Her stats are good but not super outstanding.</p>
<p>I don't know, but yesterday a student from Minnesota- Twin Cities called me and started asking me questions. They appareantly saw that I had interest in their school. I wonder if this has happened to other kids...</p>
<p>Yes! Minnesota called me pretty consistently, even though I don't remember ever showing interest in the school. I got full rides from some state schools without showing any interest in them, and I got a letter from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton inviting me to their regional reception. The schools that I showed a lot of interest in - Northwestern and UChicago (multiple visits, since I live in Chicago) - sent me loads of mail, of course.</p>
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<p>this is common, whether ivies or non-ivies.</p>
<p>Thanks for your feedback..
Looks like I am not much in demand...</p>
<p>I got a view book from Columbia (one of my freebies on my SAT), but no applications or "invites" from any other Ivies. I haven't heard of anyone getting an "invite" to an Ivy. I'm sure it's possible, but the Ivies don't really have to send out invitations, now, do they...</p>
<p>I got invitations from both Harvard, Columbia, and Dartmouth when I was applying to colleges, if by "invitations" you mean that they sent me a letter encouraging me to apply accompanied with a viewbook and an application. I'm African American and I'm nearly positive I was a "diversity" recruit -- I say that because each of the schools sent me a 'special' viewbook that was tailored especially for minority students. I'm still not sure how I felt about that.</p>
<p>Besides the Ivies, I got a TON of viewbooks/prospecti from different kinds of schools all over the country, including ones that had pre-filled application forms in them (creepy!) I know that some colleges do keep lists of prospective students, because one college in particularly kept persistently sending me pre-filled applications and reminders that I had not completed their application process (I had no intention of doing so) and two colleges that claimed to NEVER waive application fees under any circumstances sent me an application, a week before their deadline (and one AFTER their deadlines), with a waived application fee and an extension to file it.</p>
<p>does not receiving unrequested info mean the school is less interested in you and your at the lower end of their application pool?</p>
<p>No, it just means that they were not able to get your contact information from somewhere else like the PSAT, SAT, representatives, etc. It has no bearing on your competitiveness as an applicants. And on the flip side, getting unsolicited mail from schools doesn't heighten your chances of getting in or indicate that they "really, really want you" either. They send mail out to many more students than they can admit.</p>
<p>I took the SAT in 7th grade for JHU-CTY, and the mail hasn't stopped pouring in since then. Up until very recently I've actually begun paying attention to the mail I get, and I find a lot of then are brochures and letters seem to be tailored to low-income, minority applicants, so I have a feeling what I'm getting is different from my peers. </p>
<p>All the ivies and other elite colleges have contacted me and stressed their diversity and financial aid initiatives in their mailings. Cornell and Yale have called my home, much to my surprise. Harvard sent me a couple of letters, an application, and a sticker (haha). A few have offered free transportation to either a local event for the college or the college itself. Others, like juillet, have filled out the application and sent it to me - which is indeed creepy. </p>
<p>But I'm not going to fall for any college's marketing shenanigans. I have to say though, they sure are slick in making people (including me) believe that the college is hurting to have you, only to reject you when you do apply. So basically, I really don't think college "interest" matters at all.</p>