<p>There is NO connection between college marketing emails/letters and the admissions process.</p>
<p>They are totally unconnected, adcoms and marketing don't know about each other's lists, and what one does is completely irrelevant to the other.</p>
<p>MIT 012 -- I know a number of applicants who were admitted to WUSTL and to other top schools. My D, for example, was admitted to Princeton, Stanford and WUSTL (she chose Stanford). Other students at her school had similar experiences. The fact that some get into HYP or S, but not WUSTL is not evidence "Tufts syndrome." It is evidence of the reality that there are too many qualified applicants applying to all of the most competitive schools and there is a heavy dose of serendipity involved in who is admitted. HYPS all reject many students every year with perfect SATs, perfect high school grades, and a string of extra-curricular activities. Do you think HYPS reject those students because they are over qualified? Do you think HYPS suffer from "Tufts sundrome"?</p>
<p>HYPS is supposedly the top. I agree with MIT's post, because I have seen it happen at my very school.</p>
<p>HYPS doesn't suffer from Tuft's Syndrome because the applicants there are theoretically the most qualified anyway. Where else would they accept offers of admission? Harvard has a yield that is over seventy percent. It doesn't need to worry about people using it as a safety or a match. For some, WUSTL is a reach, and they are the ones who would probably attend. For some, it's a match or safety and there are many of those who fit in with the institution and really want to go there but are waitlisted. Not all, but some. WUSTL rejects many people based on fit, but there are also...other reasons. HYPS rejecting "perfect" candidates isn't the same at all.</p>
<p>WashU sends too much mail, I got more from them than anyone else.</p>
<p>I started getting mail from WUSTL my freshman year, before I'd gotten any HS grades or taken any tests. I never realized it was a good school until I read about it on CC - I just mentally lumped it into a category with the other desperate schools who bombard me with mail. I dunno if their marketing campaign is such a good strategy, because I generally assume the colleges who send me mail are rather desperate for slightly more qualified applicants :)</p>
<p>I'm so jealous. I haven't gotten any information on this WUSTL school except when my highschool counselor recommended this school to me and I was like...I've never heard of this school before.</p>
<p>I kinda feel like I want mail too, even if it is from WUSTL. :( Jealous</p>
<p>How do you even get mail from WUSTL? How do they know you exist?</p>
<p>^ I like getting mail, too! Even if it's from a college I would never go to, it's nice to feel wanted. ;)</p>
<p>And I dunno how WUSTL found me, but now I feel used - they just want me to apply so they can reject me, eh? Well, I'm not really interested, but I like when they send me their campus newsletter, lol.</p>
<p>I had a funny experience once. I applied to Loyola University in Baltimore because they were so nice to include a free application (took less than ten minutes) and very nice letters introducing the campus, the people, etc...</p>
<p>When it actually came time to apply on common apps, it said i had to cough up cash and pay for the application. I think I was like, ****, I have been squandered, what should I do now. So I just gave in the money anyway, thinking, I hate you Loyola...free application my a$s. lol</p>
<p>I too get a *****-load of stuff from WUSTL. It's getting annoying because I know I couldn't go there. I feel like I'm being taunted. haha.</p>
<p>You got a 1850 on the PSAT? Wow...I wish I was that good.</p>
<p>Phead, go over to the college sites you like online and usually they
will have a place for you to enter your information and request stuff
in case they missed out on your NMSQT/PSAT data. A great way to
explore colleges in a state etc is by using this link and following
the college url.</p>
<p>Regarding Post#22:
Respecting WUSTL as a top academic institution and recognizing
its practice of going for the more "likely to join candidate" may not
possibly have to be mutually exclusive states?</p>
<p>Requested transfer information from WUSTL. Thanks MIT 012.</p>
<p>Now, lets hope this barrage of news mail will not pursuit other members of my family from applying. Aka, my tiny little brother. I don't want any of this to brainwash him while he is so young...That is not to say WUSTL is a fine school. I just don't want to see him set his sights on this school and be rejected or something. WL or whatever you call it. That would be bad.</p>