<p>That sounds like good news to me. What would you call 'top grades', though?</p>
<p>Hey, ***? I got much higher than you on the PSAT, Murasaki, yet I haven't heard from any Ivies, NYU, or Tufts. Main ones have been UWash, Northwestern (twice until I finally registered), USC, and Reed! Oh, and Skidmore or whatever it's called.</p>
<p>:( </p>
<p>That shows inaccuracy of letter, I guess. But I'm sure crap like region, indicated interest, etc. plays into it.</p>
<p>muraski, by top grades, I mean A's or close to A's.</p>
<p>Oh, I see, that's what I thought.</p>
<p>My dad said to me a few years ago, when those letters started pouring in, that those letters are like "HEY! WE WANT YOU! AND YOUR MONEY! (But your money more, of course)" messages. </p>
<p>It still hasn't left my mind.</p>
<p>Hmm, if you mean money from application fees, you might be right, but I think that there are plenty of colleges out there that admit, and have apply, more kids than can fill all the spots in the freshman class to pay the moola.</p>
<p>Your PSAT score makes a difference, but it's mainly just colleges buying your address. When I was first beginning my college search, I got mail from all sorts of colleges that I probably wouldn't be able to get into (especially Washington University in St. Louis!!!!)</p>
<p>Hey that stuff about Harvard wanting more minorities isn't true.</p>
<p>All the white seats are just taken by legacies. Sorry.</p>
<p>Does WUSTL have a high fees to cover for the amount of paper and mailing charges?</p>
<p>WUSTL sent me so much stuff...it's pretty crazy. So did Tulane.</p>
<p>The other top schools I got mail from were Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Stanford, UPenn, Northwestern, Chicago, UCLA, UCSD, USC, Rochester, Case Western, and NYU. (I didn't pay attention to LACs...I had quite a bit there too)</p>
<p>Plenty of mail comes in your junior and senior years. If you find one interesting, take a look at it. If not, don't bother. There'll be more than enough mail than you can read.</p>
<p>For a while after I started getting the stuff, I would fill out an info request card for every one, just because I liked getting mail... LOL. Funny thing is, none of them sent me any additional stuff. Wonder why...</p>