<p>Were sent information and/or an application to Princeton without requesting one? If you applied ED, were you accepted, deferred, or rejected?</p>
<p>Princeton buys a list of names from the collegeboard every year. Then they target those kids with mails. I believe the figure's around 78,000, which I heard somewhere, but might just be hearsay.</p>
<p>Getting mail and getting into Princeton are two separate things. You're seeing a connection where there probably isn't one.</p>
<p>I didn't, and I was deferred.</p>
<p>There is a connection, but a very faint one. Princeton purchases lists of students above a certain SAT cutoff from the collegeboard. While this is certainly not a guarantee of admission in the end (not by a long shot), if you are contacted by Princeton it means your SAT score is within the range that they like their applicants to be in.</p>
<p>^Could be somewhat lower than their range too. The marketing is designed to increase the number of applications. Your rankings increase if you can reject more people and seem more selective.</p>
<p>Hmm. That's an interesting question. I really don't remember if I was or not...I seem to remember so, but I really have no idea. </p>
<p>I do seem to think that checking the ALLOW COLLEGES TO CONTACT me box on the PSAT was the worst decision I've ever made. Do Northern Arizona, Houston Baptist, and Florida International STILL contact you every single day?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure my test scores would have been in range, and I never got mailed anything.</p>
<p>The whole mailing process seems strange to me. My best friend, who was accepted ED to dartmouth and had slightly lower scores than me, got emailed from pton and never from dartmouth, and i got a dartmouth brochure and nothing from pton.</p>
<p>If you are Hispanic, you get mailed a lot of things in Spanish.
Which are quite entertaining, actually, and make a nice practice for people who come over to my house and read the odd things stuck to my refrigerator.</p>
<p>I initially got stuff from Pton w.o me asking for it. Got in ED. </p>
<p>And j07.... Northern Arizona... omg... every single day.</p>
<p>Hahaha I know. "We'll extend our application deadline for you..." "YOUR LAST CHANCE!!" </p>
<p>Thank you for the effort, really. I appreciate it greatly. But it's almost April 1 and I'm really not that interested.</p>
<p>Does that make me a horrible person?</p>
<p>I got stuff from Harvard and Yale, but had to request a viewbook from Princeton, the one Ivy to which I applied. I got deferred.</p>
<p>Hahaha yeah, I get emails from Lambuth University almost every day, an email almost every day from Princeton Review (even though I tried to turn it off), Tulane (which I applied to just for the heck of it and got in with a 22k scholarship, it was basically my go to school if I got in nowhere), and I get mail from all kinds of weird places. My brother gets even more because he did slightly better on the ACT, but it's all from really obscure places.</p>
<p>I feel guilty at the amount of free apps, extended deadlines, personalized apps, simplified apps, and unsolicited scholarship offers that I'm turning down.</p>
<p>But nah, you're just being pragmatic.</p>
<p>Yeah...my college counselor keeps asking me to bring her offers of scholarships to small Mormon universities in Utah and really strange private colleges that aren't even technical colleges, but I just can't bring myself to do it.</p>
<p>Knowing that she gets paid more for my fake acceptances isn't much motivation.</p>
<p>Would one of those happen to be Westminster? They offered national merit semis full ride. I wonder how many actually go...</p>
<p>Yep. Westminster I was actually offered a full ride, for National Hispanic Merit Scholar.</p>
<p>Harvard and Yale sent me stuff, but Princeton simply forgot to contact the Almighty Studying Stud!</p>
<p>Hahaha.
I am such a giggly mood.
Harvard sent me things for sure. They called my house too. Well, the Undergrad Minority Recruitment Program did. Eh.</p>
<p>I don't think anyone sent me anything spontaneously, even though my SAT score was pretty decent (2270)... probably because I'm not a US citizen and they don't want any more filthy immigrants stealing American kids' spots. :D</p>
<p>Yeah, camelia, that's probably it. ;)</p>