<p>I am a Sophomore who took the PSAT, and yesterday, I got a mail from Washington U at St.Louis saying they want me to consider their school, respnf for more info about us, blah blah</p>
<p>Is that a big deal? Hey, Im new to this. Help me out. Thanks!</p>
<p>haha get used to it... if you do well on the PSAT, colleges all over the place will be basically sending you spam (albiet through traditional mail) for a long, long time... At 1st I was as excited as you sound, but after awhile i just started throwing it away unopened...</p>
<p>but dont throw it all away unopened! haha I actually read my mail and learned about alot of great schools and when i didn't read my mail, I actually found out too late that I missed offers for summer programs and visits. STill, I must agree, it isn't as exciting after awhile.</p>
<p>have you found out your results from the PSAT yet?</p>
<p>My son's been getting their stuff, too. I wonder how the various colleges decide who to send info? I have a friend in Cali whose son is getting mail, too, but so far none of the colleges are the same as the ones we've been getting mail from.</p>
<p>If he checked the box asking to release his scores, be prepared for massive amounts of junk mail for months to come.</p>
<p>My children’s HS had a note asking for authorization to give information to colleges, if you sign that, you got tons of mail, and doesn’t stop until you are already in freshman year. My S who is a sophomore at college, started to receive mailing from graduate schools</p>
<p>Of all of the schools, I believe my daughter recieved the most mailings from WUSTL. Must have worked. She visited there and is applying RD there amongst five others schools.</p>
<p>OMG, you will get at least 90 separate pieces of mail from WUSTL. ANNOYING!!!!!!</p>
<p>WUSTL seems to be notorious for the amount of junk mail they send. It did help them get applications in though.</p>
<p>I didn't consider it junk mail when it came to our house. </p>
<p>We're in CA and never hear anything about WashU from our GCs at the public high. After receiving a postcard after the PSAT, we checked yes to send more info and yeah, they did send a lot. But I didn't find it excessive compared to the pile of other mailings S received from all kinds of colleges. It was the mailings that gave him insight into the university and its programs before we were able to visit, which wasn't until Sept his senior year. </p>
<pre><code>Without the mailed brochures and program descriptions, I doubt S would have put WU on his visit list, stuck where it is between the two coasts. It's easy to visit a whole slew of East Coast colleges with one flight destination and a rental car and of course, it wasn't hard to visit the two or three CA colleges he was interested in. Getting people like us to take the extra trip to St. Louis takes some marketing, plain and simple.
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<p>People will just have to put up with the burden of receiving annoying mail, because this strategy is successful for WashU. They do attract some top-notch students who otherwise may not have even considered it as an option. (I know one personally.) It works for them and it worked for us. S loves it there. The trick is going to be to get him to leave.</p>
<p>And to the OP: It is not a big deal. You are not being personally recruited by this college or any other that sends you mail. It does not imply that you have an "in" with the adcoms. The mailing means exactly what it says --- they'd like you to consider WashU, find out about it, seek out additional information to see if it would suit you and vice versa. That's all.</p>
<p>ya ya
but but but
I asked my GC about this, and she told me that only people with good scores on the PSAT and those who have marked corresponding areas of interest on the PSAT booklet will recieve these mails. </p>
<p>To make it simple, a person who got a 149 or 174 on the PSAT will probably not attract WUST. Most probably a person with 200+ would.
I don't know my PSAT Score, but my GC says WUST knows mine already. That's why they sent me this mail.
Besides, no one else I know from my school didn't recieve mail from this college =D</p>
<p>Well, anyway, thanks for all your posts! This was the first time I got a mail from a college "seeking" me, and it so happened to be the rank 12 in US WUST. I just got exicited. yeah . . .</p>
<p>I think i heard that WUSTL just pumped a few million into their relations department... thats why we get to much crap</p>
<p>Chya. I got like, several packets and reminders from dear Woostle after my PSATs came out. Great school, though.</p>