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<p>...But the thing is, Columbia was never on my college list.........but that name is ...mine. and it's a rare name..</p>
<p>either what glibert said, or because you scored well on a standardized test and that’s how they got your info. Prob if you scroll down to the bottom it will say something like “you have indicated that you wish to receive emails from Columbia U.” or “We have gathered your info from the collegeboard…click here to take your email off list”</p>
<p>Colleges can buy lists of names of students who scored high on the SAT so Columbia probably has a list and sends that letter or something similar to every student on that list above a certain cutoff score.</p>
<p>Expect another hundred schools to send you this kind of emails. They buy the list of high SAT scorers from collegeboard and mass-email them.
It’s kind of creepy… I don’t know how exactly the Asian American community of Harvard sourced me out…</p>